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10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
originBorrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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