Historical clue formulations

• Toy that's not really a toy? — 2023-09-02
• Toy associated with France — 2020-12-25
• Best in Show winner at the 2020 Westminster Dog Show — 2020-04-11
• Toy in a purse, perhaps — 2019-05-10
• *Kind of skirt or haircut — 2015-02-17
• Sometimes-dyed dog — 2010-07-14
• Winston Churchill's Rufus, for one — 2008-09-12
• "French" dog — 2004-08-02
• Toy, of a sort — 2000-06-02