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Word: playbox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Usage:

...great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Markham v. Prodigy | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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