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marionette|mærɪəˈnɛt|
Also 7 -onet, 9 -onnette, marrionette.
[a. F. marionnette, f. Marion, dim. of Marie Mary: see -ette. Cf. OF. mariotte in the same sense.]
1. A puppet actuated by strings and used to represent persons (or animals) in action.
c1620W. Browne Brit. Past. iii. i, A little spruce elfe then (just of the sett Of the French dancer or such marionett). 1664G. Etherege Com. Rev. iii. iv, Me did look to see De Marrioneté and de Jack-puddingé. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 115 One word of solid instruction to the ear conveys more knowledge to the mind at last than all these marionettes presented to the eye. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iv. iii, Quick, nervous, hinge-like motions, much resembling those of a marionette.
fig.1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. 258 Men and women are marionettes. 1868Hannay Stud. Thackeray (1869) 15 He did not invent a complicated intrigue and then a set of marionettes to carry it out.
2. The buffle-headed duck, Bucephala albeola.
1838Audubon Ornith. Biog. IV. 217 Buffel-headed Duck..being known in these different districts [of the U.S.] by the names of..Marrionette, Dipper, and Die-dipper.
3. A mechanism at the end of the batten in a ribbon-loom, for actuating the racks of the shuttles, the movements of which suggest those of a marionette.
1890in Century Dict.
4. attrib., as marionette figure, marionette play, marionette player, marionette show.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 34 The countless marionette figures in the brain of the theosophist. 1868Lightfoot Ep. Philippians (1869) 268 In the marionette plays of his native Spain St. Seneca takes his place by the side of St. Peter and St. Paul. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 41 The marionette-players will please the children. 1885‘E. Garrett’ (Mrs. Mayo) At Any Cost ix. 152 No drama at all, but only a very cleverly managed marionette show. |