dollhouselike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dollhouse +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

dollhouselike (comparative more dollhouselike, superlative most dollhouselike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dollhouse.
    • 2005, John David Slocum, Rebel without a cause: approaches to a maverick masterwork, page 64:
      Crucial to the meaning of this film is the scene in the dollhouselike Nicholai home where Dix theatricalizes his "crime" of killing Mildred Atkinson.
    • 2007 July 6, Bridget L. Goodbody, “Tiny People Painting: Look In, Look In”, in New York Times[1]:
      His dollhouselike sculptures, with a verisimilitude so great that you can read the brand name on the less-than-an-inch-high cans of spray paint, reveal a world inaccessible to the average art lover.