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vaseful en · NOUN

Etymology

From vase + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a vase will hold.
   • I bought from a waiter, at a large fee, two vasesful of their expensive table decoration. 1959, Elizabeth Cadell, Alice, Where Art Thou?, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 165:
   • A three-course luncheon in pink and white appointments was served, carnations and narcissus adorning the table and being present in fragrant vasesful about the rooms as well. 1919 March 27, “Society”, in Oklahoma City Times, volume XXX, number 302, Oklahoma City, Okla., page five:
   • There were flowers: huge vasesful of them. 2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, Penthe Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:
   • Once or twice indeed she has asked for the shears and gone out alone as in old times returning with a load of roses, and has then demanded vases and arranged them at the pier-table in the dining-room, and carried the various vasesful to their places without any thought of weakness or difficulty. 1886 June 24, Ellen Tucker Emerson, edited by Edith E. W. Gregg, The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, volume two, The Kent State University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 566:
   • a vaseful of red roses
   • Here are hundreds of vases-ful brought by the manufacturer for this three-day showing starting tomorrow. 1934 October 10, “Thursday---Begins our Annual Flower Show and Sale!”, in Des Moines Tribune, volume 54, number 45, Des Moines, Iowa, page twelve:

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