I'd always wondered if there was a term for this kind of thing, and it turns out there is: 'manikin'. From Wordnik.com. [blind pigginess] Reference
I got a little manikin, I set him on my thoomiken. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
If your clothes say who you are, you're a manikin. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: Our Cuitural Ethos Flops Again] Reference
The small green manikin was surely something else. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
His sympathy for the manikin and his kind was strong. From Wordnik.com. [Here Abide Monsters]
He walked like a manikin, living high and talking big. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
Bear to your right, manikin, and you will find a road. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
I plucked up heart at the sight of this little manikin. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
When the manikin came the next day, she began with Caspar. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Now a store in Rome is using a live manikin to sell clothing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009] Reference
When he had gone a short distance he met a little old manikin. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
He shared them with the manikin, who licked his lips and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
I bawled, and the sound was like some manikin shouting far away. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
One other oddity: Maddie wasn't stuck in her usual manikin mode. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference
Where he dances suggestively with a manikin attached to his shoes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2004] Reference
She opened it with a sigh, and once more took out the tiny manikin. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
“What will you give me if I spin it for you?” asked the manikin. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
Then the Queen began to weep and cry, so that the manikin pitied her. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
She saw the abject manikin before her cowering, silent, in his chair. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
"A fine manikin, is he not?" said Gul Shah, regarding the hideous imp. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman]
Some extremely maddened creature had torn at the manikin I was holding. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
They greeted one another, and the manikin asked him where he was going. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
“What will you give me,” said the manikin, “if I do it for you?”. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Vaughn Greanelle is for all the world like a perambulating manikin to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
It swung its awesome gape toward the golden manikin dancing around its flank. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
And surely that manikin was no stranger than anything else he had sighted here. From Wordnik.com. [Here Abide Monsters]
O'BRIEN: Yes, this poor manikin -- actually it's not the same manikin, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2006] Reference
The skin must be placed on a carefully modelled manikin with a plastic layer between. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
A year after, she had a beautiful child, and she never gave a thought to the manikin. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
The Simpleton thanked the manikin very kindly, bade him farewell, and went into the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
And there you see the 1903 Wright flyer and a manikin up there, which would be Orville Wright. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2002] Reference
To this intent, schools of a higher grade should be provided both with a skeleton and a manikin. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Was it possible that the small golden manikin had stronger metafaculties than the glorious Apollo?. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
The birth of his manikin baby and the accompanying death of his wife increase his cares past bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
In a word, to make the young wife understand that she had married an elegant manikin, unworthy of her love. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
0/+2A manikin is a life-sized anatomical human model used in education - http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/manikin. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
The feet and bases of ears are filled with papier mache pulp and the surface of the manikin coated with liquid glue. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
The only hope for it then is to glue and pin it piecemeal on a manikin covered with some preparation which gives it a firm surface. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
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