fantoche
Fantoche is a term used in Spanish and Portuguese to denote a puppet or dummy, whether a toy or a figure controlled by a puppeteer. The word is borrowed from French and is applied broadly to puppets used in various forms of puppetry, including hand puppets, marionettes controlled by strings, rod puppets, and shadow puppets, as well as ventriloquist dummies.
In performance, a fantoche is typically operated by one or more puppeteers who manipulate its movements to
Beyond entertainment, fantoche also carries figurative meaning. In both Spanish and Portuguese, the term can describe
Overall, the concept of the fantoche centers on an artificial figure whose movements are produced by a