dollhouse
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈdɑːlhaʊs/
:
casita de muñecas
- Suddenly, the house, always before as secure as a fortress, seemed fragile as a dollhouse.
Examples
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At night in his dollhouse, he sank into long dreams of what he would do when he too was rich and famous.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Third Form block was sheared off in the middle so that you had a dollhouse view of the rooms.
Fiction book (2002) -
I thought it looked more like a dollhouse.
Fiction book (2000) -
Others are little bigger than a dollhouse.
Academic text (1990) -
I keep staring at the building, expecting it to be like a dollhouse or something fake.
Blog text (13) -
Jamie took me to his aunt's house to see a 5' dollhouse.
Academic text (1991) -
Except for her very pampered, furry kitty cat, her house is rather like the interior of a fine dollhouse.
Blog text (6) -
It looks like a dollhouse now, the kind that's all open on one side so you can reach in and move the furniture around in the little cubicles.
Fiction book (1991) -
The children played for hours with their dollhouse, arranging the tiny furniture and dolls.
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She carefully painted each room inside her new dollhouse to make it look just like her real home.
Synonyms
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2.1
A small model house with tiny furniture that children play with using dolls
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dollhouse comes from doll ('a child's toy') and house ('home'), so people also use it to describe a real building that is very small or looks like a 'toy house'.