9 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
noun a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
noun a life-size dummy used to display clothes
originBorrowed from French mannequin, derived from Old French [Term?] (“little man, figurine”), derived from Middle Dutch mannekin (“little man”) or mannekijn (see English manikin), diminutive of man (“man”). By surface analysis, man + -kin. Compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manakin and manikin.
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