Meanings
plural parcelfuls
- Enough to fill a parcel.
A parcelful of reasons.
2017, Chris Nickson, On Copper Street: A Tom Harper Mystery, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN2 more examples
As she liked books, he even thought of taking her a whole parcelful as a surprise—some that he had left in one of his trunks in the loft.
[c. 1900], Émile Zola, The Masterpieces of Emile Zola, Lutetian Society, page 149The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.
1967, Swami Nityatmananda, D. P. Gupta, ‘M’—the Apostle and the Evangelist: A Continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Civil Lines, Rohtak: Sri Ramakrishna—Sri Ma Prakashan, page 3
Origin
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