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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dollhouse \dollhouse\ n.
a house so small that it is likened to a child's dollhouse. Sometimes used in reference to a small house with especially elaborate exterior decoration.
a small model of a house used as a toy by children, usually including miniature furniture and other objects that can be arranged inside it as the would be in a real house.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A miniature house used by children as a toy or as a base for domestic dioramas.
WordNet
n. a house so small that it is likened to a child's dollhouse [syn: doll's house]
a small model of a house used as a toy by children [syn: doll's house]
Wikipedia
A dollhouse or doll's house is a toy home made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults. The term dollhouse is used commonly in the United States and Canada. In the UK ( United Kingdom) the term dolls' house or dollshouse is used.
Today's dollhouses trace their history back about four hundred years to the baby house display cases of Europe, which showed idealized interiors. Smaller dollhouses with more realistic exteriors appeared in Europe in the 18th century. Early dollhouses were all handmade, but following the Industrial Revolution and World War II, they were increasingly mass-produced and became more standardized and affordable. Dollhouses can range from simple boxes stacked together used as rooms for play, up to multimillion-dollar structures displayed in museums.
Contemporary children's play dollhouses are mostly in 1:18 (or 2/3") scale, while 1:12 (or 1") scale is common for dollhouses made for adult collectors.
A dollhouse is a miniature replica of a house.
Dollhouse, doll house or doll's house may also refer to:
- Dollhouse (TV series), a series created by Joss Whedon
- Doll's House (TV series), a Bangladeshi drama serial
- "Dollhouse" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- "Dollhouse" (song), a 2009 song by Priscilla Renea
- The Sandman: The Doll's House, a trade paperback collection of The Sandman
- "Dollhouse", a song by Bruce Springsteen from Tracks
- " The Doll-House", a short story by James Cross
- A Doll's House, a play by Henrik Ibsen
- The Dollhouse (professional wrestling), American professional wrestling stable
- Dollhouse, a DC Comics supervillain
Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially canceled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010. Production wrapped in December 2009, with a total of 27 episodes produced including the original pilot.
The show revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments (known as "Dollhouses") around the globe that program individuals referred to as Actives (or Dolls) with temporary personalities and skills. Wealthy clients hire Actives from Dollhouses at great expense for various purposes, including heists, sexual encounters, assassinations, expert counsel, and all manner of unique experiences. The series primarily follows the Active known as Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, on her journey towards self-awareness. Dushku also served as series producer.
Dollhouse initially received mixed reviews and underwhelming ratings, but improved progressively enough to be renewed for a second season. After the second season finale, the series was cancelled.
"Dollhouse" is an electropop song by American pop singer–songwriter Priscilla Renea from her debut album, Jukebox. Produced by Benny Blanco and Lil' Ronnie, it was released as the album's lead single in late 2009 in North America. It is an uptempo dance song with influences of neo-electro and synthpop. The main idea behind the song is relationship independence and was written as an uptempo empowerment anthem that declares independence from an insensitive, indifferent partner.
The first season of the television series Dollhouse, premiered on February 13, 2009, on Fox and concluded its 12-episode season on May 8, 2009. The season aired on Fridays at 9:00 pm ET. Together with Fringe, Dollhouse was a part of Fox's "Remote-Free TV" initiative to keep people from switching channels during commercial breaks. Therefore, every episode of this season was 47–50 minutes long compared to a usual 40–43 minute length for regular network television.
The second and final season of the television series Dollhouse premiered on September 25, 2009 on Fox and concluded its 13-episode season on January 29, 2010. The season aired on Fridays at 9:00 pm ET.
Dollhouse is the debut extended play by American recording artist Melanie Martinez, released Feb 23, 2016, by Atlantic Records and Warner/Chappell. The EP was primarily produced and co-written by hip hop duo Kinetics & One Love.
Usage examples of "dollhouse".
There was a set of toy dinnerware in the closet as well as a small dollhouse, a teddy bear and bunny, six or seven coloring books.
If anything can fool the visitors it will be this lovely pavilion, completed only a few days ago, charming and quaint as a dollhouse, and its enchanting little children playing on the swings and roundabout or splashing in the pool.
The shed itself looked as if it had encountered a giant with a chainsaw who had sawed it neatly in half, right along the rooftree, leaving it with the same three-wall construction favored by dollhouses everywhere.
Six hands began piling souvenirs on the table, a veritable dollhouse garage-sale assortment of miniatures: a double-burner stove, a small refrigerator, a circular end table, several video monitors, a chest of drawers, a space heater, a commode, a/v discs, CD players, a teddy bear, a set of golf clubs, a guitar.
They saw a Barbie dollhouse and a canopy bed and an antique china cabinet and a child's wheelchair and a typewriter and a tangle of golf clubs and a cedar hot tub, split in half like a coconut husk-Bonnie said it was as if a great supernatural fist had snatched up a hundred thousand lives and shaken the contents all over creation.
There was an old dollhouse that she had found in a junk shop in Brooklyn and had been taking apart, cannibaliz.
The approaching crowd felt like a root vegetable that made every tree in the Finite Forest look like a tiny twig, made the huge lasagna served at the Prufrock Preparatory School cafeteria look like a light snack, and made the skyscraper at 667 Dark Avenue look like a dollhouse made for midget children to play with, a root vegetable so tremendous in size that it would win every first-place ribbon in every starchy farm crop competition in every state and county fair in the entire world from now until the end of time.
There were lots of colored electric signs and booths where you could buy everything under the sun: Christmas cookies and marchpane, antitank guns and Christmas buns, hand grenades, household articles, aerial bombs, cognac snifters, and suicide teams, leitmotives and murder motives, Christmas tree stands and close combat badges, dolls with washable hair, dollhouses, dolls' cradles, dolls' coffins, doll replacement parts, doll accessories, dolls' radar.