Flanders baby
now chiefly Scottish or historical
noun
A wooden doll with expressive painted features, dressed to display fine or fashionable clothes; (more generally) a child's doll; (also in extended use) = doll.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Young Coalman's Courtship to Creelwife's Daughter.
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