Pronounced: muck-dah-nuhl-die-ZAY-shun (alt: muck-dah-nuhl-duh-ZAY-shun), noun
Notes: You probably know the origin of this word, but do you know what it means?
Yesterday’s word
The word maquette is “a usually small preliminary model (as of a sculpture or a building)”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1900s (1900-1910)
Background / Comments
A maquette is generally intended to serve as a rough model of a larger design. Our word came directly from the French word maquette, which came from the Italian noun maccietta (sketch), which came from the Latin word macula (spot).
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