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n. - A container for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school).

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  • Dutch cheese, keep it carefully in your play-box or in your desk; but don't let your white mice get at it.
  • A large book, interleaved with blotting-paper, was disinterred from the play-box, and Bobbie sat down before it solemnly.
  • But I was bound to go, for I wanted some wire to finish a cage I was making for my dormouse, who was running loose in my play-box and making everything in an awful mess.
  • The labour of packing my play-box and writing labels for my luggage had given me a momentary thrill, but for the rest I had moved among my insurgent comrades with a...
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