Definitions for mannequin

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mannequin man·ne·quin

Spelling: [man-i-kin]

IPA: /ˈmæn ɪ kɪn/

Mannequin is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in mannequin (aeimnnnqu).

Definitions for mannequin

noun

1. a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
2. a wooden figure or model of the human figure used by tailors, dress designers, etc., for fitting or making clothes.
3. a person employed to wear clothing to be photographed or to be displayed before customers, buyers, etc.; a clothes model.
4. lay figure (def 1).

Origin of mannequin

1560-70; French Dutch; see manikin

Examples for mannequin

She found herself moving slowly around the study, with the gait of a mannequin in a dress-maker's show-room.

He sold his harps and bought photography equipment, taking round-the-clock photos of a mannequin in different kinds of light.

Before the body was sent to the crematorium, Shilling and Crump filled the casket with animal bones, meat, and a mannequin.

Madame colours, looks resentful, Mademoiselle busies herself with orders to a mannequin.

He's too good looking in an unassuming masculine way to dress so neatly—it makes him look like a mannequin.

If it does not satisfy the mannequin demand for "beauty" it at least refuses to accept margarine substitutes.

Jason Schwartzman was holding hands with a mannequin during a fashion photo-shoot in Hollywood one afternoon last spring.

They were able to redo it as My Fair Lady, which is so beautiful, and then mannequin.

The mannequin, meanwhile, lies in a heap of legs and arms on the stately king-sized bed.

The glide seems to be the ideal at which the modern woman aims in her walk, and the mannequin glides with every exaggeration.