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Answer for the clue "Marionette - poodle ", 6 letters:
puppet

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"doll moved by strings or wires" (later applied to puppets in glove form), 1530s, later form of Middle English popet "doll" (c.1300; see poppet ), from Old French popette "little doll, puppet," diminutive of popee "doll, puppet" (13c., Modern French poupée ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Puppet is a 1957 Argentine film directed by Román Viñoly Barreto .

Usage examples of puppet.

The prose of Saikaku, the puppet plays of Chikamatsu, and the poems of Basho were resuscitated, annotated, and made available to a wide reading public.

Too bad for him that Benet was already my puppet when he came to confess his secret to his Prince and Master!

In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.

Traditional theater was removed from preperformance censorship in mid-1947, beginning with Bunraku puppet theater in May, followed by Kabuki in June, and Noh in September.

This organ appeared to be a replica of the one outside the Rembrandt, with the same garish colour scheme, multi-coloured canopy and identically dressed puppets dancing at the end of their elasticized strings, although this machine was clearly inferior, mechanically and musically, to the Rembrandt one.

The idea that the elaihim could take over the freewill of any human who was close to them and make them dance to their tune like so many puppets was a sorry prospect for his species.

We went home, where I ate tuna out of a can while she wrote a poem using the rhythms of the gamelan, about shadow puppets and the gods of chance.

I lay fingering the bruises blooming on my cheek, shading from purple to green, watching the shadows of the pines behind the curtain, dancing in the wind like Balinese shadow puppets behind a screen, moving to gamelan music.

And so, with the father two open mouths away, Aaron pictures Jesus as a low-budget marionette, standing between two cardboard pillars, preaching to an audience of hand puppets with googly eyes.

They will have before them not only the visible and human puppets, but the Church, the Inquisition, the Feudal System, with divine inspiration always beating against their too inelastic limits: all more terrible in their dramatic force than any of the little mortal figures clanking about in plate armor or moving silently in the frocks and hoods of the order of St Dominic.

At the core of the Tycho problem was the fact that no one save Ysanne Isard knew if Tycho was her puppet or not.

The abbot himself, Brother Junco, was so smitten by the vision of her that he left the order and became yet another absinthe-swilling puppet performance artist in the underbelly of London.

Miss Mahan jerked her eyes back to the beautiful child, feeling like a puppet herself.

It would have done me good to launch some objurgation against the precious little puppet, within doors, but this delicacy forbade.

Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on- and offstage as the script requires.