playbox

English

Etymology

play +‎ box

Noun

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.