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
Landsbanki sold the London toyshop Hamleys in September and a major stake in frozen food store Iceland last spring.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
It was at such a time that she saw the small ragged boy, and the still smaller, still more ragged girl wistfully gazing into the fairyland of a toyshop window.
From The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buck and Chaff had been round the toyshops together.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The toyshops, we found, did not keep anything of the kind we wanted, and our boards, which we had to get made by a carpenter, are the basis of half the games we play.
From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
O! her lamps of a night! her rich goldsmiths, print-shops, toyshops, mercers, hardwaremen, pastry-cooks!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The toyshops, he reflected, were closed, and then he looked at his stepdaughter again....
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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