playbox

noun

playbox

noun

Etymology From play + box.

1

A box for storing playthings; a toybox.

  • […] she brought down in the towel-covered clothes-basket, on the wheel-barrow, […] a playbox with a secret drawer […]1915, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Postgate:
  • These paper and print designs may be used to decorate nursery playboxes[…]1947, Viola Hening, Fun with scraps, page 126:
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  • That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. They were, in fact, on their way back to school.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

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