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castleful en · NOUN

Etymology

From castle + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a castle.
   • As painters and graphic artists, Agar, Carrington, Colquhoun, Hugo, Kahlo, Kerrn-Larsen, Lamba, Oppenheim, Rimmington, Toyen, and Varo opened whole castlesful of imaginative windows that have made life more thrilling for the dreamers of all countries ever since. 1998, Penelope Rosemont, “In the Service of Revolution, 1930–1939”, in Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, section “Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties”, page 47:
   • Welsh resistance effectively collapsed, to be encircled with new castlefuls of Edward’s soldiers. 1992, Pat Gerber, “England’s Edward and the Celtic Fringes”, in The Search for the Stone of Destiny, Canongate Press, →ISBN, page 72:
   • Does n’t she know very well that the Giant-Killer will rescue whole castlesful of distressed damsels? 1874 January, “Baby’s Thoughts”, in St. Nicholas, volume I, number 3, page 168:

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