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autumnful en · NOUN

Etymology

From autumn + -ful.

Meanings

1. An amount that lasts through or is produced during one autumn season.
   • Aldo and Carl had an autumnful of grouse and pheasant hunts, using the shack as basecamp for excursions into the tamarack swamps of Adams County. 2010, Curt D. Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, page 410:
   • The dirt was humid and black, difficult to find under several autumnfuls of leaves, but a few scattered spots of neon yellow stood out. 2018, Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids:
   • One is of a duck, for all its feathered glory, lying unaccountably dead in the midst of an autumnful of fruit; the other an idyl, a meadow-curving pregnancy of bloom becoming orchard, the sunlight busy with its probes. 1981, Alvaro Cardona-Hine, Half Eaten Angel - Volume 1, page 29:

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