"courtful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "court + -ful",
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      "form": "courtsful",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1892, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories, page 336",
          "text": "Worldly little devil, I would stand about, musingly fitting my cold bare feet into cracked bricks and crevices of the damp cellar floor, – walking over my grandfather's body, so to speak, into the courtful of houses, and selling them for meat and drink, and clothes to wear.",
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          "ref": "1978, Michael Shurtleff, Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 136",
          "text": "When there is more than one character in the scene, as is so frequently the case with Shakespeare (where there can be a whole courtful of people for you to deal with), then place the different characters in widely different locations on stage, giving them each a single simple attitude toward you that you are either combatting or using as agreement.",
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          "ref": "2010, Ruth Padel, Sir Walter Ralegh, Faber & Faber",
          "text": "It Includes poems by Elizabeth, who had to keep control of her courtful of poetically competing males.",
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        "As much as a court would hold."
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        {
          "word": "courtyardful"
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  "word": "courtful"
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  "etymology_text": "court + -ful",
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      "form": "courtsful",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "courtfuls",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1892, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories, page 336",
          "text": "Worldly little devil, I would stand about, musingly fitting my cold bare feet into cracked bricks and crevices of the damp cellar floor, – walking over my grandfather's body, so to speak, into the courtful of houses, and selling them for meat and drink, and clothes to wear.",
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          "text": "When there is more than one character in the scene, as is so frequently the case with Shakespeare (where there can be a whole courtful of people for you to deal with), then place the different characters in widely different locations on stage, giving them each a single simple attitude toward you that you are either combatting or using as agreement.",
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        "As much as a court would hold."
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