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doll's houses

doll's houses is the plural of doll's house.

Meaning of 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

Questions about doll's houses

What is doll's houses the plural of?
Doll's houses is the plural of doll's house.

Words near doll's houses in the dictionary

  1. doll up
  2. doll's eye
  3. doll's eye sign
  4. doll's eyes
  5. doll's house
  6. doll's houses
  7. doll's pram
  8. doll's prams
  9. doll-less
  10. doll-like
  11. dolla

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