doll-babyn.
U.S.
= doll n.1 2, 3; in quot. 1807, a small image of the human figure on which clothes are displayed. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun]
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man of clouts, king of clouts1467
pup-barn?c1475
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baby doll1725
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1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1898) IX. 83 The dresses of the annual doll-babies from Paris.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 42 She never had more than a thimble~full of brains in her doll-baby head.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 292 The little girls..had been petted by their fathers and mothers like doll-babies.
1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 808/2 I keep on looking just the same frivolous doll-baby.
1965 H. Gold Man who was not with It (new ed.) iv. 34 The doll-baby lashes fell shut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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