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A woman who wears clothes to display fashions
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mannikin
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Word definitions for mannikin in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manikin \Man"i*kin\, n. [Also spelled mannikin .] [OD. manneken, dim. of man man. See Man , and -kin .] A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin. A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal [syn: manikin , homunculus ] a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin , manikin , manakin , fashion model , model ] a life-size ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any of several Asiatic passerine birds of the genus (taxlink Mannikin genus noshow=1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The bridge, as the mannikin told us, was a favourite place for people to commit suicide.
Usage examples of mannikin.
She had already sewn the doll to use for the mannikin and hidden it in her cabinet.
She would have to go without love for the time the mannikin rested in its pouch against her skin, but it would be worth it to see Ibrahim suffer.
When she was finished and the mannikin was snug against her belly, she looked at herself in the polished silver mirror on her wall.
Even worse than the whispering and the malaise that had struck her when she created the mannikin was the awful wiggling sensation against her abdomen.
It was difficult to speak to anyone with the mannikin cackling in her ear.
AFTER JOHANNA had left and closed the door, Ysabel tore the mannikin out of the pouch and threw it against the wall.
Ysabel snorted when she heard the mannikin speaking to her, telling her that there had been no man in her bed for the past seven months.
Her disguise complete, she went to the mannikin and pushed it into the pouch once more.
She had taken the mannikin off and had it baptized by a drunken, defrocked priest in a filthy hovel in Reuilles-la-ville.
Now that she did not need to hold the mannikin close to her body and was free to dally if she wanted, she had hoped to spend the entire day with her Henri and what did he do?
She savagely stabbed the mannikin again and again, delighted to hear its screams of pain.
If she could make a powerful charm like the mannikin, how hard could it be to make a love charm?
Muffled, cackling laughter of the mannikin rose from the depths of her cabinet.
In it, the mannikin had grown into a huge creature made of some kind of straw or twigs, covered in vines and flowers.
She pulled her wet hair off the back of her neck, then scowled at her cabinet where the mannikin howled with laughter.