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mosqueful en · NOUN

Etymology

From mosque + -ful.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural, rare) As many as a mosque will hold.
    • They resembled a mosqueful of tiny Muslims in prayer and I made my way gingerly through them, stepping on sections of the floor in the little alleyways that separated each mat from its neighbors 2012, Joseph Skibell, The English Disease - Page 192
    • and surprised or forced the whole mosqueful into swearing allegiance to the present ruler. 2012, Isabel Savory, In the Tail of the Peacock:
    • It's available in a mosqueful of colors, materials and patterns, 1990, Metropolitan Home - Volume 22 - Page 72