doll's pram

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Noun

doll's pram (plural doll's prams)

  1. A toy model of a pram used by children to push a doll.
    • 1918, Friedrich Fröbel, Froebel Society, Froebel Society and Junior Schools Association (contributors), George Philip & Son (publisher), The Child Life Quarterly, Volumes 20-21, page 24:
      I saw a doll's pram, too, which was big enough for Teddy, and some croquet things, mallets and balls.
    • 1965, New Zealand, School Publications Branch (contributor), School Journal, Volume 59, Issues 1-2, page 28:
      Coal was her baby now. Jane could put him in the doll's pram and he would lie there and let her wheel him around.
    • 1972, N. Blurton Jones (editor), Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour, page 76:
      The types of apparatus and toys usually available are: climbing frame, steps and slide, rocking horse, trucks, doll's house, doll's pram, balls, toy cars, guns, dolls and so on.
    • 1977, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children - Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, page 151:
      I mean, she'd set her heart on a doll's pram and my little boy had set his heart on a train set, which they were both expensive.
    • 1990, David Lodge, Souls & Bodies, page 145:
      When, two years after Nicole's birth, four-year old Anne ran into the road in pursuit of a doll's pram and was knocked down by a dry-cleaner's van, Angela was sufficiently hardened and tempered psychologically to cope with the crisis.
    • 2009, Susan Brewer, British Dolls of the 1950s:
      Though doll's prams were still hard to get during the first year or two of the 1950s , by the middle of the decade the choice was astounding; prams were not only made by toymakers such as Tri-ang (Pedigree), but by makers of full size prams including Silver Cross, Marmet, Tan-Sad and Royale.
    • 2018, Faye Robinson, An Ordinary Girl, My Path to Peace of Mind, page 11:
      To my amazement, he reappeared almost immediately with a perfect little doll's pram.

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