Meanings
plural shopfuls · plural shopsful
- The amount that a shop can hold.
Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin1 more example
Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.
1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Origin
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