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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dollhouse¹

First recorded in 1775–85; doll + house

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.

From Time

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

From Washington Post

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

From 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.

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg