We don't have synonyms for maquette yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are coquette, baguette and roquette.
"1993: His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette. -- Will Self, My Idea of Fun"
"1993: His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette. -- Will Self, My Idea of Fun"