Meaning of dressful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as is within, on, or held by a dress.

Examples

“The next time we were out she gathered a whole dressful of Amanitas, but all she got for her trouble was a severe lecture on the virtues of keeping her dress clean.”

““Boy, what a dressful!” He pretended to lunge at her like an animal.”

“Left, a dressful of sunbursts, navy, red and white acetate, 8 to 16, $95.”

“She lays my body out between the charred blunt stubble and the sun, seals my eyes shut with her tongue; then fetches dressfuls of freshly scythed grass to pour over me, all the while singing those tone-deaf songs she knows.”

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