Entry Word: manikin

Function: noun

Meaning:

or mannikin

1 a three-dimensional representation of the human body used especially for displaying clothes <the store had manikins so lifelike that they startled me several times> — see mannequin 1
2 a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising <undulating movements of the manikins as they strutted down the catwalk> — see model 2