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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A life-size full or partial representation of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes; a dummy.
  2. n. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery. Also called lay figure.
  3. n. One who models clothes; a model.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes
  2. n. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery
  3. n. An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR
  4. n. A person who models clothes

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; a fashion model.
  2. n. A three-dimensional model of a person, used to display clothes, especially in retail stores and in window displays; a dummy.
  3. n. A model of a human form used by tailors to help make clothing of the proper shape.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a life-size dummy used to display clothes
  2. n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

Etymologies

  1. From the French mannequin, from the Dutch manneken ("little man"), diminutive of Dutch man ("man"), equivalent to man +‎ -kin. More at man, -kin. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, little man, figurine, from Middle Dutch mannekijn; see manikin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. fashion model
  1. model

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  1. dummy

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  1. lay figure
  1. manikin
  1. model
  1. dummy

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  • pterodactyl *loves dontcry for her magnificent pun* Sep 29, 2008

  • dontcry He can't sing, but mannequin dance! Sep 29, 2008

  • Prolagus I've been feeling down
    I've been looking round the town
    For somebody just like me
    But the only ones I see
    Are the dummies in the window
    They spend their money on clothes
    It saddens me to think
    That the only ones I see are mannequins
    Looking stupid, being used and being thin
    And I don't know why I hang around with them
    The way they act, I'd rather be fat than be confused
    The way they act, I'd rather be fat than be confused
    Than be me in a cage
    With a bottle of rage
    And a family like the mafia.

    (Family tree, by Belle and Sebastian) Sep 28, 2008

  • mollusque A human or a life-size model of a human figure used to display clothes. Sep 28, 2008

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