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mannequin

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mannequin \mannequin\ n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; a fashion model. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: fashion model, model. A three-dimensional model of a person, used to display clothes, especially in retail stores and in window displays; a dummy. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mannequin is a 1933 British film, in which a boxer leaves his true love for another woman but ultimately returns to her.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes 2 A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery 3 An anatomical model of the human body for use in ...

Usage examples of mannequin.

They seemed almost to be overdressed mannequins placed ornamentally around the room for some Hollywood spectacle.

Told to use the service entrance, the offenders argued that they had seen mannequins wearing nothing but panty hose being traipsed through the day before, and no one had seemed to mind.

We almost ended up with mannequins in their panty hose in the same room as the coffins.

So as to properly weight the trial vehicle, Randy alla-made a mannequin of -- why not polished madrone wood?

He went downstairs and found a pondside esplanade that had fewer mannequins walking along it.

The turtleneck saleslady used the partial mannequin during stops to display her fluorescent-toned wares.

He saw, not a mannequin, but Scaramouche, dressed in comic garments pale as death, face split in manic grin, eyes glittering.

Fact again, the testimony of Eveningstar Sophotech, who says no attack by Scaramouche or any other mannequin took place on the steps of her mausoleum.

Some, zestfully proclaiming the futility of the cosmos and the impotence of man, cherished their own calm or heroic emotions, and deployed their cloak of fortitude and flowing rhetoric, mannequins even on the steps of the scaffold.

Out on the field of rubble and debris a legion of department store mannequins had arisen and was opposing an acid cloud that crumpled them with a caress.

The room had been furnished with antiques of the late-eighteenth century, from which period the house itself dated, and with several mannequins wearing period costume.

New Yorker Clothes, in whose front window I saw my first naked mannequins, dancing a murderous tango.

Dead tramps were found on park benches and in abandoned warehouses, rigid as mannequins, as if posing for a store-window advertisement of poverty.

She looked like a mannequin in that silver trench-coat, with the curling comma of dark hair spilling out from under the yellow chiffon scarf she'd hurriedly tied on before they fled.

They'dparticularly enjoyed the story of how Joy hadonce found me engaged in a monologue with astore mannequin.