doll's house

Noun

doll's house (plural doll's houses)

1. (UK) A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
   • Adam Stockhausen's doll's-house production design is eye-wateringly precise, the black-and-white images of the city's ancient buildings (shot in Angouleme) deserve their own coffee table book2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC

   Synonyms:

   playhouse

2. (figuratively) A small, cramped, dwelling-place.
   • A slightly incongruous note is struck by the National Westminster Bank beside the Vine [pub], a tiny dolls' house of a building, about the size of a garden shed, in herringbone-patterned brick.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent