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Definition of Drawerfuls
1. drawerful [n] - See also: drawerful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawerfuls
Literary usage of Drawerfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Keystone of Empire, Francis Joseph of Austria by Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen (1903)
"... above the very Regalia which has descended to him in its glittering splendor
through a long course of centuries, a couple of drawerfuls of short letters ..."
2. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller (1860)
"A single shell, so unequivocally of the period of the boulder- clay as to occur
at the base of the deposit, would be worth, I have said, whole drawerfuls of ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1881)
"Sometimes I have lace to repair for ladies, worth £200 or more ; let alone ten,
or twelve, drawerfuls of my own." " But surely, my dear madam, ..."
4. Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople by Frances Minto (Dickinson) Elliot (1893)
"To this collection, including whole drawerfuls of unset jewels, regarded as of
no more value than buttons, each Sultan is supposed to have contributed ..."
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