mannequin
(mænɪkɪn )
Word forms: mannequins
1. countable noun
A mannequin is a life-sized model of a person which is used to display clothes, especially in shop windows. [old-fashioned]
2. countable noun
A mannequin is a person who displays clothes, hats, or shoes by wearing them, especially in fashion shows or in fashion photographs. [old-fashioned]
Image of mannequin
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Collocations:
dress a mannequin
Mannequins dressed as footmen look poised to serve up, while yeomen dummies stand guard.
The Sun
A mannequin dressed in the old man's fighting gear stands proudly over the masks of his vanquished foes.
Times, Sunday Times
But most of them will remain in vaults to make way for set pieces involving mannequins dressed in period costumes among taped 'authentic sounds'.
Times, Sunday Times
Aside from fire practice, the location had a bowling lane and a restaurant; it was decorated with numerous hunting trophies and mannequins dressed in plate armors.
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