marionette

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See also: Marionette

English

A marionette being manipulated by a puppetmaster during a traditional yoke thé performance in Bagan, Myanmar

Etymology

Borrowed from French marionnette. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

marionette (plural marionettes)

  1. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
  2. (obsolete) The buffel duck.

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Verb

marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)

  1. (transitive) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.

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Interlingua

Noun

marionette (plural marionettes)

  1. marionette

Italian

Noun

marionette f

  1. plural of marionetta

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Portuguese

Noun

marionette f (plural marionettes)

  1. Superseded spelling of marionete.
  1. ^ “marionette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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