http://wordie.org/words/doll Comments for the word 'Doll' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/doll#comments What we need is a historical reverse dictionary of meanings. 'Doll' was only used in the modern sense from about 1700 (and was <a href="/words/cant">cant</a> at first); '<a href="/words/poppet">poppet</a>' was used in this sense from about the fifteenth century; so what did English children play with before? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:28:11 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/doll#comments