storeful

plural storefuls · plural storesful

1. An amount that fills a store.

   Nationals guard a million storesful of employes from temptation.

   1912, Merchants Record and Show Window - Volumes 30-31, page 39

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   A storeful of books is a storeful of ideas, adventure, excitement and beauty.

   1960, Leo Alfred Lerner, The Italics are Mine, page 144

   At the appointed hour, with the assistant manager holding a stopwatch and a storeful of patrons to cheer her on, she was given a shopping cart and five minutes to fill it with anything she wanted from the shelves.

   1990, William G. Tapply, Opening Day and Other Neuroses, page 98

   That very morning, Mr. Lamoreaux had forced a skinny old shoplifter to empty three tins of Underwood deviled ham spread from his pockets onto my conveyor belt in front of a whole storeful of customers.

   1996, Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone, →ISBN, page 356

   I steel myself for the reality of no swallows and storefuls of swallow kitsch.

   2011, Marjorie Sandor, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction, →ISBN

   But I tell you what you've got a storeful of when you're old – the past.

   2011, Rose Tremain, Sadler's Birthday, →ISBN, page 53