Marionette
[,mærɪə'net] or [,mærɪə'nɛt]
Definition
(n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
(n.) The buffel duck.
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Definition
n. a puppet moved by strings a puppet-show.
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Examples
- She saw each one as a complete figure, like a character in a book, or a subject in a picture, or a marionette in a theatre, a finished creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They played with the past, and with the great figures of the past, a sort of little game of chess, or marionettes, all to please themselves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Public officials do not become political marionettes, though people pretend that they are. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They had all the great men for their marionettes, and they two were the God of the show, working it all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It seems a pity that in motion pictures should at last have been found the only competition that the ancient marionettes cannot withstand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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