playscale

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adjective

Of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.

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Meanings

adjectiveplayscale (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.

    […] several other playscale (approximately 12-inch) males have entered the collection.

    2010, Debbie Behan Garrett, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I Listen, page 213
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    For this study I have scaled her and her house at one-sixth scale or playscale (two inches equals one foot; one centimeter equals six)

    2021, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, page 84

Origin

From play + scale.

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APA

playscale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playscale

MLA

“playscale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playscale. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “playscale,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playscale.

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