marionette

Borrowed from French marionnette. One of the first figures to be made into a marionette was the Virgin Mary, hence the name.

• 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. 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

• ortetamine, temeration

marionette (plural marionettes)

1. marionette

marionette f

1. plural of marionetta

• intemerato, riemettano

marionette f (plural marionettes)

1. Superseded spelling of marionete.