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DOLL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small replica of a person; used as a toy
Synonyms:
doll; dolly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("doll" is a kind of...):
plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doll"):
golliwog; golliwogg (a grotesque black doll)
kachina (a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift)
paper doll (a piece of paper cut or folded into the shape of a human being)
puppet (a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers)
rag doll (a cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted)
sawdust doll (a doll that is stuffed with sawdust)
toy soldier (a doll that resembles a soldier)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal terms for a (young) woman
Synonyms:
bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("doll" is a kind of...):
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb doll
Context examples:
Having seen Adele comfortably seated in her little chair by Mrs. Fairfax's parlour fireside, and given her her best wax doll (which I usually kept enveloped in silver paper in a drawer) to play with, and a story-book for change of amusement; and having replied to her Revenez bientot, ma bonne amie, ma chere Mdlle.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She's nothing but a doll tonight.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That little house is now furnished right through, as neat and complete as a doll's parlour; and but for Barkis's illness having taken this bad turn, poor fellow, they would have been man and wife—I dare say, by this time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One of our boys laid his head in his mother's lap to be out of harm's way, and little Agnes (our eldest child) left her doll in a chair to represent her, and thrust out her little heap of golden curls from between the window-curtains, to see what happened next.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"It would, indeed, be a relief," I thought, if I had ever so small an independency; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester, or sitting like a second Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I'll do my lessons every day, and not spend so much time with my music and dolls.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
By and by she made tea for us; which it was so pretty to see her do, as if she was busying herself with a set of doll's tea-things, that I was not particular about the quality of the beverage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
