marionette

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

marionette (plural marionettes)

1. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
   • 1885 — Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado

     If you think we are worked by strings,

     Like a Japanese marionette,

     You don't understand these things:

     It is simply Court etiquette.

2. (obsolete) The buffel duck.

• marionettist

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.

• marionette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Marionettes in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• manipulator

• metanorite, ortetamine, temeration

marionette (plural marionettes)

1. marionette

marionette f

1. plural of marionetta

• intemerato, mattonerei, mattoniere, riemettano

marionette f (plural marionettes)

1. Superseded spelling of marionete.