playscale

English

Etymology

play +‎ scale

Adjective

playscale (not comparable)

  1. Of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.
    • 2010, Debbie Behan Garrett, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I Listen, page 213:
      […] several other playscale (approximately 12-inch) males have entered the collection.
    • 2021, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, page 84:
      For this study I have scaled her and her house at one-sixth scale or playscale (two inches equals one foot; one centimeter equals six)
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