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Meaning of porcelain doll | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.
  2. A flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.
    figuratively

Equivalents

Suomi posliininukke

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

porcelain god porcelain goddess porcelain shell porcelain skin porcelainberry porcelainflower

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