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porcelain doll

porcelain doll noun: a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.

Noun

porcelain doll (plural porcelain dolls)

  1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.
    • And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation.1920, Francis Stevens, chapter 2, in Serapion
    Synonyms:
    bisque doll
  2. (figuratively) A flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.

Synonyms of porcelain doll

Forms of porcelain doll

pluralporcelain dolls

Questions about porcelain doll

What does porcelain doll mean?
Porcelain doll means a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.
What part of speech is porcelain doll?
Porcelain doll is a noun.
What is the plural of porcelain doll?
The plural of porcelain doll is porcelain dolls.

Words near porcelain doll in the dictionary

  1. porcelain biscuit
  2. porcelain bus
  3. porcelain buses
  4. porcelain crab
  5. porcelain crabs
  6. porcelain doll
  7. porcelain dolls
  8. porcelain god
  9. porcelain goddess
  10. porcelain goddesses
  11. porcelain gods

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