bisque doll

English

A Queen Alexandra bisque doll with a head made of bisque (sense 3), from the collection of the Guildhall Museum in Rochester, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Noun

bisque doll (plural bisque dolls)

1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

     Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.

Synonyms

• porcelain doll

Translations

doll

• Japanese: ビスクドール (bisuku dōru)