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Mannequin
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- 1 A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes.
"At the same time, Mr. Bolton was intrigued by Mr. Sundsbo’s proposal to make models look like mannequins because it spoke to the blurring of boundaries — between good and evil, angels and demons, nature and technology, permanence and decay — that was a consistent theme of the McQueen collections."
- 2 a life-size dummy used to display clothes wordnet
- 3 A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery.
- 4 a woman who wears clothes to display fashions wordnet
- 5 An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR.
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- 6 A person who models clothes. dated
"She screamed out direction to various mannequins. "Clothilde, Virginie, quickly, my little ones, the little tailleur gris clair and the robe de soirée ‘soupir d'automne.’ Marcelle, my child, the little mimosa suit of crêpe de chine." It was a charming morning. Marcelle, Clothilde, Virginie, bored and scornful, passed slowly round, squirming and wriggling in the time-honoured fashion of mannequins."
Etymology
Borrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”), derived from Middle Dutch mannekijn (“little man”) (see English manikin), diminutive of man (“man”). By surface analysis, man + -kin. Compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manakin and manikin.
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