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
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh—the square in front of the Plaza—that tall chopped bulky tower lit from within like a model in a toyshop window—motors purring up to its door like thin dark cats, motors purring away.
From Young People's Pride A Novel by Stephen Vincent Benét
This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A wood-shaving may seem a poor plaything to a child with all the toyshops in London to pick and choose from, but it is really very curious and pretty.
From A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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
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