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noun

doll n.

A small, usually flexible figure representing a human being, especially a toy baby for a little girl; a child's puppet.

An attractive woman or girl. (slang) "Come along and be my party doll."

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Etymology of 'Doll'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Doll" Quotes from Famous Books

... my sixpence until I get a good many more, and then I'll buy me a handsome wax doll. Wouldn't you do that, mother, if ...

— Wreaths of Friendship - A Gift for the Young • T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth

... evening skating party and they had seen her from the window join Hollister and add her skates to those glittering on his shoulder, Mrs. Sandworth promulgated one of her unexpected apothegms: "Do you know what we are, Susan Emery? We're a couple of old children playing with a doll." Mrs. Emery protested with an instant, reproving self-justification: "You may be—you're not her mother; but I understand ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... doesn't that make your scalp creep? Dolores Tristeza! "Sorrows and Sadness!" I dashed out and bought her a gorgeous doll and she gave me a gracious smile but she was not at all overcome. She clearly feels her quality. Loads of people have wanted to adopt her but she ...

— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... her eyes and smiled radiantly. "Oh, so do I!" she said. "And that lovely old doll your folks have has got brown hair. Will you let me play with ...

— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield

... of money," Pepsy said, "you could teach me all the things that scouts know and I'd pay you ever so much. Once I had forty cents but I spent it at the Mammoth Carnival. I paid ten cents to throw six balls so I could get a funny doll and I never hit the doll and when I only had ten cents left I made believe the doll was Deadwood Gamely and I hated and hated with all my might while I threw the ball the last six times but ...

— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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