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Definition of Mannikins
1. mannikin [n] - See also: mannikin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mannikins
Literary usage of Mannikins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"In the new world there are no Grand Seigniors, no human vegetables; and if there
are fewer giants, there are also fewer mannikins. ..."
2. River Legends, Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Gustave Doré, Daldy, Isbister & Co (1875)
"Accordingly, several of the most notorious witches in that part of the country
mannikins at Play. (and ever since England was a country, Berkshire and ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"Whether 'The mannikins' will enhance the reputation of the author, ... But auguries
from these premises, as to the career of ' The mannikins,' would not be ..."
4. Education Through the Imagination by Margaret McMillan (1904)
"He sees that the children draw mannikins. Like Leonardo da Vinci * he has never
... to give the children the power of seeing and drawing the mannikins well. ..."
5. Germany and the German Emperor by George Herbert Perris (1912)
"Incidentally, he exhibits also the way of a man among an assembly of mannikins.
The Austrian president alone has been accustomed to smoke at the sittings. ..."
6. Italian Backgrounds by Edith Wharton (1905)
"In the Museo Correr, on the Grand Canal, there has recently been opened a room
containing an assemblage of life-sized mannikins dressed in the various ..."
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