maquette

Pronounced: ma-KET, noun

Notes: I don’t think I’ve ever run across this word

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Yesterday’s word

The word Oakley is “a complimentary ticket or pass”

First usage

Our word came into English in the 1910s

Background / Comments

Our word is named after Annie Oakley, the famous sharpshooter. I think I’ve heard or read this word somewhere, and I had a sense of the meaning. However, I thought it referred to any ticket, not a complimentary one. In order to prevent such tickets from being resold, they had holes punched in them. As Annie Oakley was famous for shooting holes in various targets, such a tickets was called an “Annie Oakley”, or just “Oakley”. Annie Oakley was quite a shot: she could split a playing card hit edge on; she could hit dimes tossed into the air; she could snuff out candles with a bullet; and she could knock corks off of bottles.