marote 16
1º_ Head of doll or mannequin to expose wigs. From the French marot, with the same meaning and an etymology related to puppet. 2º_ By the previous one, a type of puppet whose head has a joint in the mouth to handle it with one hand simulating that it speaks, and usually they can also move an arm handled with a rod by the other hand of the puppeteer. In some cases a mechanism is added to close the eyelids. 3º_ Cane with a handle in the shape of a doll's head used in a traditional African dance. 4º_ Popular dance in the Spanish-American colonies in the mid-nineteenth century, which in its beginnings was frowned upon for its procaces movements. See ladybug (dance), zarabanda. 5º_ As a male marota is a derogatory voice used like marica, to name a gay and also a coward.