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dollhouse

[ dol-hous ]

noun

, plural doll·hous·es [dol, -hou-ziz].
  1. a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
  2. a cozy, diminutive home, as a small cottage or housetrailer.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dollhouse1

First recorded in 1775–85; doll + house

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Example Sentences

AMODELS wanted to create a dollhouse that an adventurous child might dream of, rather than an experienced architect.

She traipses through the different rooms of a colorful dollhouse-like mansion full of ballerinas and balloons with her band mates.

In the black-and-white stop-motion animation Dollhouse, Sherman casts herself as a cutout doll from a book.

Inside, a bed and other furniture could be seen in the four exposed rooms, like a dollhouse displaying its innards.

So I saved up enough money for a week to see Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Like a dollhouse exposed, he revealed rooms and corridors along which men were running.

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