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playbox en · NOUN

Etymology

From play + box.

Meanings

1. A box for storing playthings; a toybox.
   • 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:
   • […] 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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