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Manikin
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- 1 A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment).
"This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby."
- 2 a life-size dummy used to display clothes wordnet
- 3 A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.
"[…] he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the color of a three days’ old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be."
- 4 a woman who wears clothes to display fashions wordnet
- 5 Alternative spelling of mannequin. alt-of, alternative
"Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window."
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- 6 a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal wordnet
Etymology
From Dutch manneken, Middle Dutch mannekijn. Doublet of manakin and mannequin.
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