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porcelain doll

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porcelain doll (plural porcelain dolls)

  1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.
    Synonym: bisque doll
    • 1920, Francis Stevens, chapter 2, in Serapion:
      And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation.
  2. (figurative) A flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.
    Coordinate term: ice queen
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