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Definition of Lay figure
1. Noun. Dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body.
Definition of Lay figure
1. Noun. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, or to display clothes. ¹
2. Noun. An unimportant person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Figure
Literary usage of Lay figure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"TUB LAY-FIGURE. Л PAINTER S STORY. " No chanco of the steam-boat Bailing tonight,
gentlemen," said the landlord of the Crown Inn at Dover, as he entered the ..."
2. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"Beating of WOMEN DUSTING AND CARESSING THE LAY-FIGURE drums went on the whole
day — languid and sad at moments, excited, violent, and rowdy at others, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"And sooth to чау, his passion fur his lay-figure was euch that it was produced
... It was, to get the loan of the lay-figure ; and by dint of perseverance, ..."
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