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Rag doll   /ræg dɑl/   Listen
Rag doll

noun
1.
A cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted.






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"Rag doll" Quotes from Famous Books



... sixpence they bought a cardboard box that had come all the way from Japan and contained a whole family of dolls—father, mother and four children of different sizes. A box of paints, threepence: a sixpenny tea service, a threepenny drawing slate, and a rag doll, sixpence. ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her. She was a slim; growing girl, pale in complexion and with hay-coloured hair. The gas in the pantry made her look still paler. Gabriel had known her when she was a child and used to sit on the lowest step nursing a rag doll. ...
— Dubliners • James Joyce

... the kitchen where she had been consulting the cook about the meals, and Sally came tagging after her; of course, with a cookie in one hand and a rag doll in the other. ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... when the corpse of a little girl was extricated and placed on a stretcher for transportation to the morgue. Clasped to her breast by her two waxen hands was a rag doll. It was a cheap affair, evidently of domestic manufacture. To the child of poverty the rag baby was a favorite toy. The little mother held fast to her treasure and met her end without separating from it. The two, child and doll, were not parted when the white coffin received them, ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker



Words linked to "Rag doll" :   doll, dolly



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