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playscale

playscale adjective: of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.

Adjective

playscale (not comparable)

  1. Of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.
    • […] several other playscale (approximately 12-inch) males have entered the collection.2010, Debbie Behan Garrett, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I Listen, page 213
    • For this study I have scaled her and her house at one-sixth scale or playscale (two inches equals one foot; one centimeter equals six)2021, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, page 84

Origin of playscale

From play + scale.

Questions about playscale

What does playscale mean?
Playscale means of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.
What part of speech is playscale?
Playscale is an adjective.

Words near playscale in the dictionary

  1. plays with edged tools
  2. plays with fire
  3. plays with house money
  4. plays with oneself
  5. plays-of-color
  6. playscale
  7. playscape
  8. playscapes
  9. playscheme
  10. playschemes
  11. playschool

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