mannikin
noun
Meaning
- A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment).
- A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.
- A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes
- A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery
- An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR
- A person who models clothes
- Any of several Asiatic passerine bird species of the genus Lonchura.
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