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shopful en · NOUN

Etymology

From shop + -ful.

Meanings

1. The amount that a shop can hold.
   • Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province. 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne:
   • Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous. 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:

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