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Lay figure

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Noun
  1. 1
    A jointed model of the human body used by artists, or to display clothes.

    "‘I have a great mind to break all your gashly images about the head of your fine Miss, in her silks and satins;’—mistaking his lay-figure for a living model of the highest sort."

  2. 2
    dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body wordnet
  3. 3
    An unimportant person; a character (especially in fiction) lacking individuality.

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