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
She describes how she filmed a key scene in a toyshop.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013
Several nominations went to old toyshop standards: Thomas & Friends, Elmo, Dora the Explorer.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2012
She had seen a far, far truer picture of him when she had turned her head towards him in the toyshop.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the toyshops it is sometimes called the "Chinese rings," though there seems to be no authority for the description, and it more frequently goes by the unsatisfactory name of "the puzzling rings."
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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
Nothing better has happened to me since I used to be taken to look at the toyshops the day before Christmas.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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