Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small model house used as a children's toy or to display miniature dolls and furniture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a house so small that it is likened to a child's dollhouse. Sometimes used in reference to a small house with especially elaborate exterior decoration.
- noun a small model of a house used as a toy by children, usually including miniature furniture and other objects that can be arranged inside it as the would be in a real house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
miniature house used bychildren as atoy or as a base fordomestic dioramas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small model of a house used as a toy by children
- noun a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything
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Examples
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The Japanese style dollhouse is the latest addition to Sanwa supply's growing papercraft collection.
Japanese Dollhouse Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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For all I know, chicken dollhouse is at the ATM wearing a saliva hammock.
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For all I know, chicken dollhouse is at the ATM wearing a saliva hammock.
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A Kodak mother here photographing her daughter playing with her dollhouse could be a work by Laurie Simmons; it lacks only the feminist quotation marks.
Kodak's Grand Central Moments Richard B. Woodward 2011
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The dollhouse was the opposite: noisy, chaotic, full of contention.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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The dollhouse was the opposite: noisy, chaotic, full of contention.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way it seemed more like a portal to adulthood.
NYT > Home Page By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN 2011
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I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way it seemed more like a portal to adulthood.
NYT > Home Page By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN 2011
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A dollhouse was his favorite, and he filled it with furnishings and people.
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The same can be said for Clarke Peters, who is best known as dollhouse furniture craftsman and wiretapping wiz Lester Freeman.
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