toybox en · NOUN
Etymology
From toy + box.
Meanings
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A box for storing toys.
A peculiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toybox, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen, are driving their multifarious traffic.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| toyboxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (2)
fi lelulaatikko (box for storing toys) · es juguetero (box for storing toys)