vaseful

English

Etymology

vase +‎ -ful

Noun

vaseful (plural vasefuls or vasesful)

1. As much as a vase will hold.

   a vaseful of red roses

   • 1886 June 24, Ellen Tucker Emerson, edited by Edith E. W. Gregg, The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, volume two, The Kent State University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 566:

     Once or twice indeed she has asked for the shears and gone out alone as in old times returning with a load of roses, and has then demanded vases and arranged them at the pier-table in the dining-room, and carried the various vasesful to their places without any thought of weakness or difficulty.

   • 1919 March 27, “Society”, in Oklahoma City Times, volume XXX, number 302, Oklahoma City, Okla., page five:

     A three-course luncheon in pink and white appointments was served, carnations and narcissus adorning the table and being present in fragrant vasesful about the rooms as well.

   • 1934 October 10, “Thursday---Begins our Annual Flower Show and Sale!”, in Des Moines Tribune, volume 54, number 45, Des Moines, Iowa, page twelve:

     Here are hundreds of vases-ful brought by the manufacturer for this three-day showing starting tomorrow.

   • 1959, Elizabeth Cadell, Alice, Where Art Thou?, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 165:

     I bought from a waiter, at a large fee, two vasesful of their expensive table decoration.

   • 2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds‎^[1], Penthe Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:

     There were flowers: huge vasesful of them.