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ˈdoll's house
Also doll-house, dolls' house.
[doll n.1 2.]
A miniature toy house made for dolls; also transf. and fig., applied esp. to a diminutive dwelling-house. Also attrib.
1783Lady E. Fenn Cobwebs to catch Flies I. 90, I have a chest at home, in my doll's house. 1840Dickens Let. 31 July (1969) II. 109, I don't believe there is anywhere such a perfect little doll's house as this{ddd}the garden flourishing, the road lively, the rooms free from creeping things. 1842― Amer. Notes I. iii. 113 Like articles of furniture for a pauper doll's-house. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre I. iv. 47 Some picture-books and doll's house furniture. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. vi. 57 A habitable doll's house..would set the boy up in life. 1855Fraser's Mag. July 60/2 Each of these doll-house rooms is crowded with prints, [etc.]. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iv. v. 198 ‘We live on Blackheath, in the charmingest of dolls' houses...’ But Bella started up...‘I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.’ 1882H. F. Lord tr. Ibsen's Nora p. v, The play now given to us as Nora is called in Norwegian Et Dukkehjem. To a public unused to Ibsen's surprises, A Doll's House is a misleading title. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman Ep. Ded. p. xi, Doña Juana, breaking out of the Doll's House and asserting herself as an individual. 1926W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxiv, Christopher spent a week-end with Thomas Roland in his doll's house at Chelsea. 1959[see doll n.1 5]. |