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Definition of Toyshops
1. toyshop [n] - See also: toyshop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toyshops
Literary usage of Toyshops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1855)
"We intended to have added to this chapter an inventory of the present most
fashionable articles in our toyshops, and a list of the new assortment ..."
2. English Children in the Olden Time by Elizabeth Godfrey (1907)
"Little master, and little miss, too, would be sure to haunt these, and get
innumerable toys made for them in days when toyshops were few or none, ..."
3. The Blowpipe in Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology: Containing All Known by William Alexander Ross (1884)
"It is, in few words, the conversion of one of those white, vulcanite, children's
air- balls, about the diameter of one's closed fist, sold in toyshops for ..."
4. The Celebrated Madame Campan: Lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and by Violette M. Montagu (1914)
"As for Cousin Josephine, she ransacked all the toyshops in the capital, spent
fabulous sums on dolls, pretty clothes, and jewels for the little girl whose ..."
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