Meaning of compartmentful | Babel Free

Definitions

A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.

Examples

“There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it.”

“He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers.”

“The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street.”

“And the little compartmentful of cherry pie isn't bad.”

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