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Manakin

noun
1.
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.  Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model.
2.
A life-size dummy used to display clothes.  Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin.
3.
Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior.





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... us; I saw some of them, and Cherrie and Miller many, many more. They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and- green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer. We also saw a bird that really was protectively colored; a kind of whippoorwill which even the sharp-eyed naturalists could only make out because it ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt


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