porcelain doll

noun

A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.

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bisque doll
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Meanings

nounporcelain doll (plural porcelain dolls)

plural porcelain dolls

  1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.

    And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation.

    1920, Francis Stevens, chapter 2, in Serapion

    Synonyms: bisque doll

  2. figurativelyA flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.

Similar
bisque doll
Also see
bisque doll
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APA

porcelain doll. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porcelain%20doll

MLA

“porcelain doll.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porcelain%20doll. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “porcelain doll,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porcelain%20doll.

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