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Answer for the clue "Kind of doll ", 6 letters:
kewpie

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were initially conceived as comic strip characters by artist and writer Rose O'Neill . The illustrated cartoons, appearing as baby cupid characters, began to gain popularity after the publication of O'Neill's ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A kewpie doll.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, American English, coined by their illustrator, Rose C. O'Neill (1874-1944), as an altered form of a diminutive of Cupid .

Usage examples of kewpie.

Some of them started to dance and some went in the booths and I put in a few more licks for good measure and quit just in time because Kewpie had the mouthpiece on his sax and was showing signs of joining in, dry reed and all.

My arms and hands ached from whaling away at the box and my head ached worse from hearing Kewpie sing and play consistently out of tune.

He kept sending out to the bar for drinks for Kewpie and me until I told him plenty.

Lester, Kewpie, and I, so I stopped in the same Rustic Bar for a drink on the way back to the hotel.

The telephone rang then and I picked it up, thinking it would be Kewpie calling from the lobby.

Lester and Kewpie came over, Lester to tell me he was going back to the hotel and his date, and Kewpie to say he had to see a man about a dog.

I got the house doctor up and had a bit neater job done on my sore ear, and he was just leaving when Kewpie came in.

It was possible that Kewpie might have been the one that did the shooting.

So the Gunki came running with a stretcher made out of a large mullein-leaf, and they put the Kewpie and his legs tenderly upon it.

Chapter VII Accepting an Invitation The next morning Sara took with her only the Kewpie and the Baby.

So the Kewpie was rewarded for being good, and the Baby was rewarded for being bad, and Sara slipped through the ivory doors with both of them tucked under one arm.

Fresh fish and apples, books, jewelry, kiwi fruit, kewpie dolls, old coins, and every conceivable thing to eat or use rapidly disappeared from view.

They lay against the pillows of the four-poster bed, cute as a pair of Kewpie dolls.

In her duty heels and tight skirt and sucking on a cinnamon lollipop, she often referred to herself as Suzi Sugargram, your glazed Kewpie tart.

Lula, oh, sweet Lula, the faded Kewpie doll her father had won for her at Kennywood Park right after her third birthday.