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baby-doll dress en · NOUN

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1. A style of short, A-line dress with a low or absent waist, characteristic of those worn by young girls or dolls.
   • Sabrina [Carpenter], certified arbiter of the coquette aesthetic, has made babydoll dresses and platform heels so much her signature silhouette that you may not even immediately notice it. 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:
   • You'll never catch thirtysomething Jennifer Garner in a baby-doll dress that would flatter only a baby or a doll. 2005, Dale Hrabi, Secrets of Celebrity Style: A Crash Course in Dressing Like the Stars, page 178 (approx.):
   • Like Kat, one of the women had bleached-blond hair and was wearing a baby-doll dress. 1995, Neal Karlen, Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band, page 6:
   • With her very girl style of short skirts, baby-doll dresses, and hair either pulled crammed into pigtails or combed with straight bangs, she certainly looked the part of "Baby Spice." 1997, Anna Louise Golden, The Spice Girls: The Uncensored Story Behind Pop's Biggest Phenomenon, page 120:

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