Meaning of eveningful | Babel Free

Definitions

An amount that lasts an evening.

Examples

“There's many an hour's helpful instruction in dainty needlework, eveningsful of absorbing fiction by the great writers — dinners and luncheons, scores of them.”

“And so it would be, if opera had evolved slowly, step by step, by a gradual expansion of the medieval ballad into a longer, more dramatic type of work, until it finally emerged as an eveningful of music for soloists, chorus, and accompanying instruments, suited to performance with scenery and costumes.”

“Of the country's more than 200 breweries, many are located in the capital, Prague. Sampling them is easy—plenty of the city's hospody (pubs) offer an eveningful of brews on tap.”

“But some people miss them – their castles I mean – they sit about and regret them and talk about their ancestors. Ancestors are hell's boring. I've had to sit through eveningfuls of them”

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