dollhouse

[ dol-hous ]

/ ˈdɒlˌhaʊs /

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noun, plural doll·hous·es

[dol-hou-ziz]. /ˈdɒlˌhaʊ zɪz/.

a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.

a cozy, diminutive home, as a small cottage or housetrailer.

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Also especially British, doll's house .

Origin of dollhouse

First recorded in 1775–85; doll + house

Words nearby dollhouse

dollar store, dollarwise, dolled up, dollface, Dollfuss, dollhouse, dollop, doll up, dolly, dollyman, dolly mixture

How to use dollhouse in a sentence

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.
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While the artform is as serious as any other, it’s proximity to childhood activities, like playing with dollhouses, encourages play.
Why 2020 was the year of miniatures|Eleanor Cummins|January 1, 2021|Popular-Science
The Sims is an interactive dollhouse where the player has control over the environment, but the dolls have just enough autonomy to surprise players.
'It Nearly Brings Me to Tears.' 20 Years On, The Sims' Diehard Fans Could Never Let Go|Matthew Gault|March 16, 2020|Time

AMODELS wanted to create a dollhouse that an adventurous child might dream of, rather than an experienced architect.
World-Famous Architects Design Dollhouses For New Charity Project|Chloë Ashby|November 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She traipses through the different rooms of a colorful dollhouse-like mansion full of ballerinas and balloons with her band mates.
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In the black-and-white stop-motion animation Dollhouse, Sherman casts herself as a cutout doll from a book.
Cindy Sherman: Early Works Opens At Gucci Museo in Florence|Alice Cavanagh|January 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Inside, a bed and other furniture could be seen in the four exposed rooms, like a dollhouse displaying its innards.
Tourists in New York Flock to See Damage Wrought by Sandy|Nina Strochlic|November 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So I saved up enough money for a week to see Welcome to the Dollhouse.
'Precious' Sweeps Indie Spirits|Isabel Wilkinson|March 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Like a dollhouse exposed, he revealed rooms and corridors along which men were running.
The Image and the Likeness|John Scott Campbell