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buildingful en · NOUN

Etymology

From building + -ful.

Meanings

1. enough to fill a building
   • When they'd arrived the night before in the pitch black after Lights Out, Gwen had taken one breath of the barracks' odor—that fluid, murky smell of a buildingful of women at close quarters—and dread had spread inside her. 1999, Tom Bradley, Killing Bryce, →ISBN, page 214:
   • When you're a seventeen year-old full of spunk and Ideas, a loving home can seem a straightjacket, never mind a buildingful of orphan brats and illegitimate bastards. 2010, KCL Creative Writing Society, King's College London Student Union, Fostering Guilt: KCL Creative Writing Society, 2009-2010, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 45:
   • You could see a whole buildingful for one franc at the Great Exhibition in Paris that very summer; and even if the new Paris Guide had been composed by literary masters, the crowds behaved childishly, possessively, destructively. 1982, Jacques Barzun, Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 401:

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