toybox

English

From toy +‎ box.

toybox (plural toyboxes)

A box for storing toys.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104:
  A peculiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toybox, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen, are driving their multifarious traffic.

box for storing toys