Dollhouse vs Dollhouselike - What's the difference?
dollhouse | dollhouselike |
(US) A miniature house used by children as a toy or as a base for domestic dioramas.
Resembling or characteristic of a dollhouse.
* 2005 , John David Slocum, Rebel without a cause: approaches to a maverick masterwork (page 64)
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 6, author=Bridget L. Goodbody, title=Tiny People Painting: Look In, Look In, work=New York Times
, passage=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. }}
As a noun dollhouse
is (us) a miniature house used by children as a toy or as a base for domestic dioramas.As an adjective dollhouselike is
resembling or characteristic of a dollhouse.dollhouse
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* doll's housedollhouselike
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(en adjective)- Crucial to the meaning of this film is the scene in the dollhouselike Nicholai home where Dix theatricalizes his "crime" of killing Mildred Atkinson.
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