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porcelain doll
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Noun
porcelain doll (plural porcelain dolls)
- 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.
- (figurative) A flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.
- Coordinate term: ice queen
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