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Definition of Toymen
1. toyman [n] - See also: toyman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toymen
Literary usage of Toymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The River Dove: With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling by John Lavicount Anderdon (1847)
"... ne pourer of alls tfie toymen of tije Painter. And how is his highness, the '
king of the ... toymen ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1891)
"... were the pastrycooks' shops in important thoroughfares — establishments which
were to be found chiefly in Leadenhall Street, and the toymen's shops, ..."
3. London in the Reign of Victoria (1837-1897) by George Laurence Gomme (1898)
"... warehouses 39 Tooth-brush manufacturers ... 13 Toy manufacturers, pewter ...
4 toymen and toymen and Translators and professors of turnery dealers . ..."
4. A History of Inventions and Discoveries by Johann Beckmann (1814)
"... till at length these places were rendered so impassable, that the toymen who
frequented them with their wares wished to abandon them. ..."
5. Transactions by Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society (1901)
"I customers of the toymen—who, with an endless choice of "varying vanities," were
unfailing in their attempts "to shift the moving toyshop of their heart. ..."
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