carpetful

plural carpetfuls · plural carpetsful

1. The amount that fills a carpet.

   Gather ’round, Children, for the weekly story hour Thursday at 2:30. Last week there were two carpetsful of listeners.

   1971 July 23, “It’s Story Time At The Library Thursdays at 2:30”, in The Mendocino Beacon, volume XCIII, number 47, Mendocino, Calif., page 1, column 4

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   First stop, France, where Jean Paul has his trick white mice; Lady Green Satin and her maid, Rosette, perform for the carpetful of absorbed youngsters; […]

   1932 April 4, Monmouth County Librarian, “County Libraries Invite Readers: That Magic Carpet”, in Long Branch Daily Record, volume 31, number 80, Long Branch, N.J., page 5, column 1

   Babies, like hamsters, develop supernatural physical abilities the minute an adult leaves the room. They have been known to disappear under furniture, pull over tables, lamps and bookcases and eat entire carpetsful of crumbs, dust, thimbles, books and valuable items that have been lost for generations.

   1987 September 6, Robert Joe Stout, “Some handy hints for taking care of little ones”, in News/Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: News and Sun-Sentinel Company, →ISSN, page 9E, column 1

   All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]

   1996, Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb, “The Common Room, Year of the Gauntlet (1369 DR)”, in Cormyr: A Novel (The Cormyr Saga), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, published 2011, →ISBN

   Walter, Shaw, Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer… all that would be needed for several spangled carpetsful of best actor gongs would be, say, Anna Paquin and Sophie Okonedo.

   2020 April 19, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Quiz, Killing Eve, Flack, The Nest, Devs and more”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2020

   The first air-raiders loosed large carpetfuls of hurtling rocks that strafed men on the ground, dislocating their shoulders, shattering 150 large wooden shields, and pulverizing brows.

   2022, D. A. Wood, Canaäd, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 558