LAY FIGURE


Meaning of LAY FIGURE in English

noun Etymology: obsolete English layman ~, from Dutch leeman Date: 1795 a jointed model of the human body used by artists to show the disposition of drapery, a person so compliant as to be likened to a puppet

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