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Definition:a mannequin
photo: By Luis Fernández García - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73563334
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She did everything that was needed—cooked, washed, mended, made the bed, swept the floor, dusted the mantelpiece—always very slowly and with a curious lack of superfluous motion, like an artist’s lay-figure moving of its own accord.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The moment a girl marries in New England she is apt to become a drudge, or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Chimney-Corner (1877)
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As it turned out, however, that he only wanted me for a dramatic lay-figure, to be contradicted and embraced and wept over and bullied and clutched and stabbed and knocked about in a variety of ways,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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he saw it in the careless indifference with which they talked among themselves, stared at the lay figures and busts, and walked about in leisurely fashion, waiting for him to uncover his picture.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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