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- noun Plural form of
plateful .
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Examples
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He is growing and ever hungry for food and, more and more, for meaning; I wish I could give him platefuls of it ... instead of asking him to share notes.
Max 2009
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He is growing and ever hungry for food and, more and more, for meaning; I wish I could give him platefuls of it ... instead of asking him to share notes.
Values 2009
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We'd eat giant platefuls, then sleep all afternoon.
The Feijoada From Ipanema Nani Power 2012
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No Diwali celebration is complete without platefuls of barfi, besan laddoo and halwa – and homemade sweets are the best
How to make Indian sweets Homa Khaleeli 2010
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But the joy of this place and this menu is that it can be used for just a couple of drive-by platefuls at the bar.
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We'd eat giant platefuls of this heavenly repast and then, like true Cariocas natives of Rio sleep the afternoon away.
The Feijoada From Ipanema Nani Power 2012
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He is growing and ever hungry for food and, more and more, for meaning; I wish I could give him platefuls of it ... instead of asking him to share notes.
Music 2009
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In its eagerness to be so very now and forward thinking, the food at Viajante manages at times to feel curiously dated; it recalls the first flush of Hestomania, when even he has moved on and is now cooking up big platefuls of heartiness at Dinner.
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Oh, she did whip up that occasional home-cooked meal, dry-as-shoe-leather liver, over-cooked fish and onions, cabbage soup that could put hair on your chest, sometimes luscious Veal Scaloppini or tasty Surprise Burgers, but rarely did we burst in the back door after a long day at school to be greeted by the delightful odors of something wonderful simmering on the stove top or platefuls of home-baked cookies and pies.
Jamie Schler: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served! Jamie Schler 2010
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Italian rooming house proprietors on Federal Hill in Providence invited nonresidents into their parlors, where they could purchase platefuls of pasta accompanied by the bottles of homemade wine and grappa that adorned the red-checkered tablecloths; culinary historians attribute the American fondness for southern Italian cuisine to the exposure it received in similar places from Boston to San Francisco.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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