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mannequin
[man-i-kin]
noun
a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
a wooden figure or model of the human figure used by tailors, dress designers, etc., for fitting or making clothes.
a person employed to wear clothing to be photographed or to be displayed before customers, buyers, etc.; a clothes model.
mannequin
/ ˈæɪɪ /
noun
a woman who wears the clothes displayed at a fashion show; model
a life-size dummy of the human body used to fit or display clothes
arts another name for lay figure
Word History and Origins
Origin of mannequin1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mannequin1
Example Sentences
"Then if you have some problems, no, that is not my problem to understand. I am the head coach, I am not a mannequin."
In the pattern cutting room, the designs are turned into paper samples, and are pinned on to mannequins.
A gold mannequin’s leg with an attached microphone substituted as Masli’s left arm.
“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.
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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