porcelain doll

English

Noun

porcelain doll (plural porcelain dolls)

1. A doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain.

   Synonym: bisque doll

   • 1920, Francis Stevens, chapter 2, in Serapion‎^[1]:

     And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation.

2. (figurative) A flawlessly beautiful but cold or soulless woman.

   Coordinate term: ice queen