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Definition of Playbox

1. Noun. A box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playbox

Literary usage of Playbox

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Walking along the shed soon after he noticed a playbox with the same kind of point. Happy thought, ' I'll make a playbox.' When he had matriculated in this ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"'10. Ginn. Play: games for the kindergarten, playground, school room and college. Angell, ED •»1.50. Little. playbox annual for 1910. Q. 11. bds. »1.25. ..."

3. "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"He was thirteen ; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1891)
"When he considered he had given her sufficient time for a rapid examination, Gibbs—with something of the feeling with which a schoolboy opens his playbox ..."

5. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Walking along the shed soon after he noticed a playbox with the same kind of point. Happy thought, ' I'll make a playbox.' When he had matriculated in this ..."

6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"'10. Ginn. Play: games for the kindergarten, playground, school room and college. Angell, ED •»1.50. Little. playbox annual for 1910. Q. 11. bds. »1.25. ..."

7. "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"He was thirteen ; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; ..."

8. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1891)
"When he considered he had given her sufficient time for a rapid examination, Gibbs—with something of the feeling with which a schoolboy opens his playbox ..."

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