"doll without" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in a sentence to describe a doll that is missing a certain feature or characteristic. Example: "She loved her new doll, but couldn't help noticing that it was a doll without a nose."
"Now I'm just a little doll without a Name," she laments.
I don't know why a bobbing head seems to make that much of a difference over a doll without a bobbing head, but it does.
The dolls also come with a set of velcro straps, so that they can be attached to a crib, bed, shelf or car seat so that newborns and infants can sleep near the doll without it being loose in the crib with them (as current guidelines recommend, soft toys should not be placed in a baby's crib because of risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other injuries).
Take a Bratz doll without a head.
Different alternative schools such as Montessori and Waldorf suggest that early toys should be hand-made and without specific features, ie. a doll without a face, a ball made of cloth, etc, so that children's imagination can work its wonder.
There were those – bless them — who simply sent dolls without asking.
The leggy dolls without noses or mouths were picked up by Couverture, a chic lifestyle shop.
Poignant poems describe dolls without children, shoes without feet, "sounds glimmering like burnt pearls" and "midnight's black flour".
Occasionally, cartoonists parodied one another: Oliver Herford once presented Gibson girls as paper dolls without expression; Al Capp in the comic strip "Li'l Abner" parodied "Dick Tracy and Mary Worthth".
Chapman seems barely to engage it at all: his peasant models are rosy-cheeked fantasies, tourist-trade dolls, without lives or personalities.
