playscale

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)