mannequin
A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for martial arts training or the…A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for martial arts training or the fitting or displaying of clothes.
» "That mannequin is creeping me out."
Meaning
4 sensesA dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for martial arts training or the fitting or displaying of clothes.
Schaufensterpuppe, Schaufensterfigur, Gliederpuppe
манеке́нmanekén
манеке́нmanekén
a life-size dummy used to display clothes
A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery.
lebensgroße Puppe, Puppenfigur
манеке́нmanekén
манеке́нmanekén
An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR.
(dated)A person who models clothes.
Model, Mannequin
манеке́нщикmanekénščik, манеке́нщицаmanekénščica, моде́льmodɛ́lʹ
a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
Examples
3 sentences"That mannequin is creeping me out."
Look how this beautiful dress fits on the mannequin!
ruПосмотрите, как это красивое платье сидит на манекене!
He's too good looking in an unassuming masculine way to dress so neatly—it makes him look like a mannequin.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”),Borrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”), derived from Middle Dutch mannekin (“little man”) or mannekijn (see English manikin), diminutive of man (“man”). By surface analysis, man + -kin. Compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manakin and manikin.
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