noun
Word Origin late 19th century: French, from Italian machietta, diminutive of macchia ‘spot’.
Scrabble Points: 19
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Scale model of unfinished sculpture
A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture. The term is a loanword from French. An equivalent term is bozzetto, a diminutive of the Italian word for a sketch. Wikipedia