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  • When the door opens, her baby-doll hands with their severely short nails, sans polish, fly into action as they have every day for the last six years since she and her husband, Michael Guo, opened Butterfly Nail Spa.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Woman in the Window Nancy Ruhling 2012

  • That's why I am fine with Ubi marketing puppy and baby-doll games to little girls -- especially if it gets them comfortable at an early age with interactivity, technology, hardware devices and stuff like that.

    Women Audiences, Women Characters SVGL 2009

  • The same went for the pancake makeup, the helmet-wigs, and that perky, baby-doll voice.

    Everything I need to know, I learned from Tammy Faye « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Harvey recently traded her elderly bluesman growl for a baby-doll falsetto, and the juxtaposition between her newly girly voice and the disc's preoccupation with death and decay Soldiers fell like lumps of meat/. . .

    Album review: PJ Harvey, "Let England Shake" Allison Stewart 2011

  • The same went for the pancake makeup, the helmet-wigs, and that perky, baby-doll voice.

    08 « November « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • How far she can go is at least Hollywood, after showing up in a short baby-doll dress and boots and singing a tune in her itty bitty voice while flinging her arms.

    'American Idol': Season 10, episode 4 Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • A dozen new pink “Welcome to the Void” baby-doll T-shirts sat on the back seat next to thirteen new shirts for Dad: ten black, two of the new white ones, and one royal blue, all purchased by Talbot from a lucky vendor.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • A dozen new pink “Welcome to the Void” baby-doll T-shirts sat on the back seat next to thirteen new shirts for Dad: ten black, two of the new white ones, and one royal blue, all purchased by Talbot from a lucky vendor.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • This may explain why the 1960s British pop star long ago chucked the miniskirts and trumpet-sleeved baby-doll dresses that were part of her mod, mod, mod, mod world.

    Bringing 'Downtown' to Midtown Joanne Kaufman 2012

  • Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.

    Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet Robert Greskovic 2011

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