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Kew·pie

(kyo͞o′pē)
A trademark for a fat-cheeked, wide-eyed doll with a curl of hair on top of the head.
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Kew•pie

(ˈkyu pi)
Trademark. a small, plump doll with a topknot.
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There was Nell Brinkley, Fanny Cory ("Little Miss Muffit"), Edwina Dumm ("Tippie"), Grace Drayton ("Dimples"), Marge Henderson ("Little Lulu"), Dale Messick ("Brenda Starr"), Rose O'Neill ("The Kewpies"), Jackie Ormes ("Torchy Brown"), Martha Orr ("Apple Mary"), Gladys Parker ("Mopsy"), Hilda Terry ("Teena"), and others.
At the turn of the century, Bose O'Neill's initially subversive "Kewpies" also had a reform agenda--the blurring of gender distinctions, woman suffrage, and progressive motherhood.

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