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manikin

/ˈmænɪkɪn/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about manikin at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal.
  2. A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
    she was too fat to be a mannequin
  3. A life-size dummy used to display clothes.

Origin

From Dutch manneken, Middle Dutch mannekijn. By surface analysis, man + -ikin. Doublet of manakin and mannequin.

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