toyshop
Americannoun
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toyshops
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Origin of toyshop
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In one episode Pockets, Giggles and Spin venture to a toyshop, only to find it is in an inaccessible treehouse.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
The family have been leafing through a toyshop brochure together and discussing which two toys the children might like to have.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Our local toyshop is neatly divided into two aisles, one with building sets and model trains and games, the other with Barbies and princess dresses.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2014
She describes how she filmed a key scene in a toyshop.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013
The projecting centres and wing-towers, the outside staircase, and roofs conical, flat, pyramidal, bulbous and Oriental, give it a miscellaneous toyshop appearance, characteristic perhaps of the mosaic character of the nation.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
You go into the toyshops, elbowing your way as best you can, looking for such toys as may aid the child in his work of creative imagination.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Buck and Chaff had been round the toyshops together.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The toyshops, he reflected, were closed, and then he looked at his stepdaughter again....
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The new beaux and the old ones began to buy modish habits and periwigs, adorn themselves with new sword and shoulder knots, and trifle over the latest essences offered in the toyshops.
From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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