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playscale en · ADJ

Etymology

From play + scale.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.
    • […] several other playscale (approximately 12-inch) males have entered the collection. 2010, Debbie Behan Garrett, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I Listen, page 213:
    • 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) 2021, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, page 84: