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dollhouse

[ dol-hous ]

noun

, plural doll·hous·es [dol, -hou-ziz].
  1. a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
  2. a cozy, diminutive home, as a small cottage or housetrailer.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dollhouse1

First recorded in 1775–85; doll + house
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Example Sentences

A gothic dollhouse come to life, Little Devil Inside is an indie action-adventure game in which your player, trapped in a spooky town, must rely on survival tactics when spooky monsters attack.

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Travis Childers and Jenna North outfit an old dollhouse with plastic foliage and toy animals to show human civilization succumbing to nature.

While the artform is as serious as any other, it’s proximity to childhood activities, like playing with dollhouses, encourages play.

The Sims is an interactive dollhouse where the player has control over the environment, but the dolls have just enough autonomy to surprise players.

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AMODELS wanted to create a dollhouse that an adventurous child might dream of, rather than an experienced architect.

She traipses through the different rooms of a colorful dollhouse-like mansion full of ballerinas and balloons with her band mates.

In the black-and-white stop-motion animation Dollhouse, Sherman casts herself as a cutout doll from a book.

Inside, a bed and other furniture could be seen in the four exposed rooms, like a dollhouse displaying its innards.

So I saved up enough money for a week to see Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Like a dollhouse exposed, he revealed rooms and corridors along which men were running.

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