Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quantity that a vase will contain.

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  • noun As much as a vase will hold.

Etymologies

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vase +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • He waved at the table he had ** • bottles and glasses, platesful of breads, cheeses, sausage, lox, — * ™ r tanuba, from somewhere a vaseful of flowers.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • A sudden puff of wind blew in through the open window, disarranging the grouping of a vaseful of flowers, and Ann crossed the room to rectify the damage.

    The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

  • And gazing as if indifferently at a vaseful of roses, she asked, with a feeling of suffocation:

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

  • "We'll have a big vaseful of wild roses in the center and one single rose in front of everybody's plate -- and a special bouquet of rosebuds only by Mrs. Morgan's -- an allusion to" The Rosebud Garden ", you know."

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

  • Another vaseful stood on the table beside the basket.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • Just beneath the picture, on the top shelf of the bookcase, was a vaseful of flowers.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • "We'll have a big vaseful of wild roses in the center and one single rose in front of everybody's plate -- and a special bouquet of rosebuds only by Mrs. Morgan's -- an allusion to 'The Rosebud Garden' you know."

    Anne of Avonlea 1908

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