OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9601

puppet

/ˈpʌpɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fantoche • marioneta • títere
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
fantoche • marioneta • monigote • pelele • títere
A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the R…
These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consign…
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