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

Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had 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.

marionette (plural marionettes)

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

string puppet

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

marionette (plural marionettes)

  1. marionette

marionette f

  1. plural of marionetta

marionette f (plural marionettes)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of marionete