doll's house

See also: dollshouse and dolls' house

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doll's house (plural doll's houses)

  1. (UK) A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
    Synonym: playhouse
    Hypernym: house
    • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC‎[1]:
      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 book
  2. (figurative) A small, cramped, dwelling-place.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 202, about Goudhurst, Kent:
      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.

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