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mannequin

Or ··쾱

[man-i-kin]

noun

  1. a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.

  2. a wooden figure or model of the human figure used by tailors, dress designers, etc., for fitting or making clothes.

  3. a person employed to wear clothing to be photographed or to be displayed before customers, buyers, etc.; a clothes model.

  4. lay figure.



mannequin

/ ˈæɪɪ /

noun

  1. a woman who wears the clothes displayed at a fashion show; model

  2. a life-size dummy of the human body used to fit or display clothes

  3. arts another name for lay figure

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mannequin1

1560–70; < French < Dutch; manikin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mannequin1

C18: via French from Dutch manneken manikin
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"Then if you have some problems, no, that is not my problem to understand. I am the head coach, I am not a mannequin."

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In the pattern cutting room, the designs are turned into paper samples, and are pinned on to mannequins.

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A gold mannequin’s leg with an attached microphone substituted as Masli’s left arm.

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“I went into department stores and the first dress I saw on the mannequin was off-white lace, and I was like, ‘This is gonna be it,’” Windey said.

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Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.

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