doll's pram

plural doll's prams

1. A toy model of a pram, especially one used by children to push a doll.

   I saw a doll's pram, too, which was big enough for Teddy, and some croquet things, mallets and balls.

   1918, Friedrich Fröbel, Froebel Society, Froebel Society and Junior Schools Association (contributors), George Philip & Son (publisher), The Child Life Quarterly, Volumes 20-21, page 24

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   Coal was her baby now. Jane could put him in the doll's pram and he would lie there and let her wheel him around.

   1965, New Zealand, School Publications Branch (contributor), School Journal, Volume 59, Issues 1-2, page 28

   The types of apparatus and toys usually available are: climbing frame, steps and slide, rocking horse, trucks, doll's house, doll's pram, balls, toy cars, guns, dolls and so on.

   1972, N. Blurton Jones (editor), Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour, page 76

   I mean, she'd set her heart on a doll's pram and my little boy had set his heart on a train set, which they were both expensive.

   1977, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children - Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, page 151

   When, two years after Nicole's birth, four-year old Anne ran into the road in pursuit of a doll's pram and was knocked down by a dry-cleaner's van, Angela was sufficiently hardened and tempered psychologically to cope with the crisis.

   1990, David Lodge, Souls & Bodies, page 145

   Though doll's prams were still hard to get during the first year or two of the 1950s , by the middle of the decade the choice was astounding; prams were not only made by toymakers such as Tri-ang (Pedigree), but by makers of full size prams including Silver Cross, Marmet, Tan-Sad and Royale.

   2009, Susan Brewer, British Dolls of the 1950s