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This was the name of a life-sized mechanical doll created by the mysterious Doctor Coppélius in Léo Delibes' ballet 'Coppélia' (1870), based on two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The inventor's name was possibly a latinized form of Yiddish Coppel (see KOPPEL).