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mannequin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mannequin \mannequin\ n.
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a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; a fashion model. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: fashion model, model.
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A three-dimensional model of a person, used to display clothes, especially in retail stores and in window displays; a dummy. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: manikin, mannikin, manakin.
A model of a human form used by tailors to help make clothing of the proper shape.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1902, "model to display clothes," from French mannequin (15c.), from Dutch manneken (see manikin). A French form of the same word that yielded manikin, and sometimes mannequin was used in English in a sense "artificial man" (especially in translations of Hugo). Originally of persons, in a sense where we might use "model."\n\nA mannequin is a good-looking, admirably formed young lady, whose mission is to dress herself in her employer's latest "creations," and to impart to them the grace which only perfect forms can give. Her grammar may be bad, and her temper worse, but she must have the chic the Parisienne possesses, no matter whether she hails from the aristocratic Faubourg St. Germain or from the Faubourg Montmartre.
["The Bystander," Aug. 15, 1906]
\nLater (by 1939) of artificial model figures to display clothing.\n\nWiktionary
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 teaching of e.g. CPR 4 A person who models clothes
WordNet
Wikipedia
A mannequin (also called a manikin, dummy, lay figure or dress form) is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, windowdressers and others especially to display or fit clothing. The term is also used for life-sized dolls with simulated airways used in the teaching of first aid, CPR, and advanced airway management skills such as tracheal intubation and for human figures used in computer simulation to model the behavior of the human body. During the 1950s, mannequins were used in nuclear tests to help show the effects of nuclear weapons on humans.
Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning "an artist's jointed model", which in turn came from the Flemish word manneken, meaning "little man, figurine". In early use in the United Kingdom, it referred to fashion models themselves, the meaning as a dummy dating from the start of World War II.
Mannequin is a 1987 romantic comedy fantasy film starring Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G. W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty. Directed and written by Michael Gottlieb, the film was also co-written by Edward Rugoff. The original music score was composed by Sylvester Levay. The film, a modern re-telling of the Pygmalion myth, tells about a chronically underemployed artist named Jonathan Switcher (played by Andrew McCarthy) who gets a job as a department-store window dresser and falls in love with a mannequin (played by Kim Cattrall)—the attraction being that she comes to life on occasion, but only for him.
Mannequin received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its main title tune, " Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship. The song reached #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987, and #1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following month.
In 1991, a sequel to the film called Mannequin Two: On the Move was released.
A mannequin is a life-sized model of the human figure, used especially in advertising and sales.
Mannequin may also refer to:
- Mannequin (1926 film), an American silent film starring Alice Joyce and Dolores Costello
- Mannequin (1933 film), a British drama film directed by George A. Cooper
- Mannequin (1937 film), a drama starring Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy
- Mannequin (1987 film), a comedy starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall, followed by a sequel
- Mannequin, a novel by J. Robert Janes
Mannequin is a 1926 silent film romance produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. James Cruze directed and Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter and Dolores Costello were the stars. The film is still extant.
Mannequin is a 1933 British film, in which a boxer leaves his true love for another woman but ultimately returns to her.
Mannequin is 1937 American film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy and Alan Curtis. In the film, Crawford plays Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind. Jessie meets a self-made millionaire with whom she falls in love despite his financial problems.
The film premiered on December 14, 1937 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. It opened on January 20, 1938 in New York City, followed by a wide American release on January 21, 1938.
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.