English

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Etymology

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From play +‎ box.

Noun

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playbox (plural playboxes)

  1. A box for storing playthings; a toybox.
    • 1915, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Postgate:
      [] she brought down in the towel-covered clothes-basket, on the wheel-barrow, [] a playbox with a secret drawer []
    • 1947, Viola Hening, Fun with scraps, page 126:
      These paper and print designs may be used to decorate nursery playboxes []
    • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
      That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. They were, in fact, on their way back to school.