mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model (noun)

a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

"she was too fat to be a mannequin"

mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, form (noun)

a life-size dummy used to display clothes

mannequin (Noun)

A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes

mannequin (Noun)

A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery

mannequin (Noun)

An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR

mannequin (Noun)

A person who models clothes

Mannequin

A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, windowdressers and others especially to display or fit clothing. The term is also used for life-sized dolls with simulated airways used in the teaching of first aid, CPR, and advanced airway management skills such as tracheal intubation and for human figures used in computer simulation to model the behavior of the human body. During the 1950s, mannequins were used in nuclear tests to help show the effects of nuclear weapons on humans. Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning "an artist's jointed model", which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word manneken, meaning "little man, figurine".