What is "kewpie dolls"

Usage examples of "kewpie dolls".

The elements adorning the altar had been swept to the floor and scattered, the kewpie dolls unfettered and unpinned.

But these goods, which had some merit as craftwork, were not so gorgeous in my eyes as the trash offered by a booth which was not of local origin, in which a man sold whirligigs of gaudy celluloid, kewpie dolls with tinsel skirts riding high over their gross stomachs, alarm-clocks with two bells for determined sleepers, and beautiful red or blue pony-whips.

Trucks were chugging around, men were hoisting up tents, the frameworks of rides were being pieced together like dinosaur bones, and the booths were going up where food would be sold and Kewpie dolls not worth a quarter would be won for two dollars’.

It was all girlish gewgaws: pandas and arcade Kewpie dolls, pinups of matinee idols and college pennants on the walls.

They both had bow-shaped mouths like kewpie dolls, that curved into sympathetic smiles when they spotted her.

Along one wall was a kitschy tiger-striped bar with a copper top and, on the wall behind it, Kewpie dolls from the forties and fifties lined up where bottles of liquor would normally be.

Broken kewpie dolls zoomed across the length of the ceiling with the speed of jet fighters.

There were kewpie dolls standing about, souvenirs of gaudy nights at beach resorts.

The three flappers struck their poses, lips pursed like Kewpie dolls, hands framing their faces.

They had an audience of tiny Sidhe, naked and sexless as kewpie dolls.