Meanings
comparative more dollhouselike · superlative most dollhouselike
- Resembling or characteristic of a dollhouse.
Crucial to the meaning of this film is the scene in the dollhouselike Nicholai home where Dix theatricalizes his "crime" of killing Mildred Atkinson.
2005, John David Slocum, Rebel without a cause: approaches to a maverick masterwork, page 641 more example
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.
2007 July 6, Bridget L. Goodbody, “Tiny People Painting: Look In, Look In”, in New York Times
Origin
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