toyshop
Americannoun
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toyshops
plural
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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
Is this a toyshop, or is it fairy-land?
From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
The little church stands on a bare brown hill, and all about it is an improvised village consisting half of restaurants and the other half of toyshops.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
How utterly we despise the silly little bricks of the toyshops!
From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Twenty-five years ago a curious little piece of mechanism—apparently half toy and half an instrument for amateur conjuring—made its appearance in the windows of the toyshops and bookstores of the United States.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood Mason
Nor did I painfully wish, what I was never permitted for an instant to hope, or even imagine, the possession of such things as one saw in toyshops.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
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