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noun

Manikin n. (Also spelled mannikin)

A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

A mannequin.

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Etymology of 'Manikin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manikin" Quotes from Famous Books

... not understand how anyone could really care for a mere actor, for that perpetual representation of human types which never resembled himself in the least; that illusory personification of imaginary men, that nocturnal and painted manikin who plays all his characters at so ...

— Strong as Death • Guy de Maupassant

... it with his own knife the part he preferred; then she served the chaplain and Muriel in the same way, and lastly cut some off for herself and Avice. Finally, when little was left beside the carcase, she opened the back door, and bestowed the remains on Manikin the turnspit dog, a little wiry, shaggy cur, which, released from his labours, had sat on the hearth licking his lips while the process of helping went on, knowing that his reward would come at last. Manikin trotted off into the yard with his treasure, ...

— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt

... gone, sure enough. [To Maitreya.] Well, you man with the head that looks like a caret, you manikin, take a ...

— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka

... the devil's brides were burned at Wolgast, the fool was walking at evening time up and down the great corridor, when a little manikin, hardly three hands high, started out from behind a beer-barrel, riding on a three-legged hare. He was dressed all in black, except little red boots which he had on, and he rides up and down the corridor—hop! hop! hop!—stares ...

— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold

... window, who asks indignantly, "Why the deuce did not Gladstone push his Bill through the House of Lords, and then force the Commons to accept it?" to the flushed statesman, whose dream is Imperialism; from the little manikin critic, who swells out his chest, and demands summary vengeance on that idiot of an author who has had the daring presumption to write a book on the Greek accent, or binary stars, up to the Jupiter Tonans of the world-wide circulating ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

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