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Manakin

noun
1.
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.  Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model.
2.
A life-size dummy used to display clothes.  Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin.
3.
Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior.





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"Manakin" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the cataracts above the scents of a thousand flowers. Gradually his ear became accustomed to the roar, and, above its mighty undertone, he could hear the whisper of the wind among the shrubs, and the hum of myriad insects; while the rock manakin, with its saffron plumage, flitted before him from stone to stone, calling cheerily, and seeming to lead him on. Suddenly, scrambling over the rocky flower-beds to the other side of the isle, he came upon a ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley


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