marionette
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1. marionette - Noun
2. marionette - Verb
Meaning
The buffel duck.
A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
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I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
A marionette 's arms are manipulated by strings, but Henson used rods to move his Muppets' arms, allowing greater control of expression.
Earlier this month, many onlookers in the Burlington area saw something unusual in the sky: a large transport helicopter flying overhead with a smaller craft dangling below it like a marionette.
In the latter half of the 18th century, marionette companies began to give way to glove-puppet shows, performed from within a narrow, lightweight booth by one puppeteer, usually with an assistant, or "bottler," to gather a crowd and collect money.