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dress form

British  

noun

  1. an adjustable dummy used in dressmaking that can be made to conform to a person's figure

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The piece is a three-dimensional black box with a white dress made from bath towels and bedazzled gems displayed on a dress form mannequin inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

He has the sort of experience that has become, perhaps, even more valued by consumers than the ability to drape fabric on a dress form.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

The dress has spent the last decade in Pittsburgh since Mackey’s 2013 marriage, on a dress form after a specialized cleaning.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022

A cluster of the straw daisies sits on a coffee table facing the dress form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2018

There was a dress form in another corner of the room, a half-finished pattern still pinned to the body.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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