Definitions
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- noun a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)
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Examples
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A large book, interleaved with blotting-paper, was disinterred from the play-box, and Bobbie sat down before it solemnly.
Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry
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The labour of packing my play-box and writing labels for my luggage had given me a momentary thrill, but for the rest I had moved among my insurgent comrades with a chilled heart.
The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton
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Dutch cheese, keep it carefully in your play-box or in your desk; but don't let your white mice get at it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 Various
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Don't know your own purse-strings, "spluttered the denouncer, growing incoherent with rising fury;" sit at home with your little play-box of a works down here, with fancy hutches for your rabbits of workmen, clubs, toys, kitchen ranges, hot and cold laid on.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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I was conscious that the place had an unpleasant smell, and I was already driven to thinking of my pocket-money and my play-box -- agreeable thoughts which I had made up my mind in the train to reserve carefully for possible hours of unhappiness.
The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton
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But I was bound to go, for I wanted some wire to finish a cage I was making for my dormouse, who was running loose in my play-box and making everything in an awful mess.
Adventures in Many Lands Various
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I thought strenuously of my brother's stories, of my play-box packed for a voyage, of the money in my pocket increased now by my eldest brother's unexpected generosity; and by dint of these violent mental exercises I had reduced my mind to a comfortable stupor by the time I reached the school gates.
The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton
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There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip's tin trunk and his play-box.
Of Human Bondage 1919
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When his trunk and play-box were sent in, the approaching cleavage between our brother, who now belonged to the future, and ourselves, still claimed by the past, was accentuated indeed.
The Golden Age 1915
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There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip's tin trunk and his play-box.
Of Human Bondage 1915
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