Meaning & use
Mannequin
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A life-sized model of the human body used to display clothing or for artistic and medical purposes.
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The store window featured mannequins dressed in the season's latest fashions.
Art students sketched the posed mannequin to study human proportion.
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The word comes from the Dutch "manneken," meaning "little man," and originally referred to a jointed artist's figure before it came to mean a fashion display model.
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