manikin
- n a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- n a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- n a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded at one end, at the other a plaster hand stretched over a revolving disc shaped .
- Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an .
- One night he steals the manikin, takes it home to his crummy garret, puts it gently in his bed.