Dutch doll


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Dutch doll

n
a jointed wooden doll
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If he had not carried in his pocket a parcel of sugar-candy and a small Dutch doll for little Laura, there would have been no ray of expected pleasure to enliven the general gloom.
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Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, then got it safely into Mrs.
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They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being.
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They get stuck on to a foreign princess that's as stiff as a Dutch doll, and they have their fling.
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I remembered the picture of a patchwork doll sitting in a railway carriage with his stuffing falling out and the Dutch doll giving chase to Toby Twirl and his friends.
Dorinda McCann column
Upton's 1895 children's book, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg to the history of fairground distortion mirrors; to the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Ydessa Hendeles: Institute Of Contemporary Arts
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