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marionette
/ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
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What does marionette mean?
noun
- A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
verb
- To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) The buffel duck.
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/ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
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Mothers would take their children to see people guillotined as to-day they take them to the marionette theatre.
If you think we are worked by strings, Like a Japanese marionette, You don't understand these things: It is simply Court etiquette.
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The marionette theatre was one of the Nohant amusements.
Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.