nesting dolls
- Scope note
- Toy consisting of a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. A set of matryoshkas consists of a wooden figure, which separates at the middle, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on.The smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby turned from a single piece of wood.
- Date of creation: 09-Dec-2024
Accepted term: 09-Dec-2024