castleful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]castleful (plural castlefuls or castlesful)
- Enough to fill a castle.
- 1874 January, “Baby’s Thoughts”, in St. Nicholas, volume I, number 3, page 168:
- Does n’t she know very well that the Giant-Killer will rescue whole castlesful of distressed damsels?
- 1992, Pat Gerber, “England’s Edward and the Celtic Fringes”, in The Search for the Stone of Destiny, Canongate Press, →ISBN, page 72:
- Welsh resistance effectively collapsed, to be encircled with new castlefuls of Edward’s soldiers.
- 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:
- 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.