"handbagful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From handbag + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1895 March, Charles Edwardes, “The Comrie Case”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXIX, number 3, page 354, column 2",
          "text": "One morning, when I had been only two years in the service, news came that Mr. Comrie had been found dead in his library, and that about a handbagful of gems was missing.",
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          "ref": "1915 August, L. C. M. Smythe, “Iyeyasu Sanbyakunen Sai”, in W. C. Smith, editor, The Missionary Survey, volume V, number 8, page 586, column 1",
          "text": "Then, Friday morning, Mr. Gumming and I, with three handbagsful, took the early train, prepared to do all honor to the man who was a very great patron of Buddhism and is now reverenced as one of the Shinto deities. […] The first day, there was not very much of a crowd, though we managed to get rid of two handbagsful of the tracts, but the second day, Saturday, things were certainly lively.",
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          "ref": "1992, New Statesman Society, volume 5, page 32, column 3",
          "text": "“I’m fucking hot,” says Sandra Bernhard in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, as she poses in ostrich features and several handbagsful of costume jewellery for celebrity photographer Michel Comte.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, in Wales on Sunday, page 22",
          "text": "Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park.",
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          "ref": "2005, anonymous author, “Thursday, 7 June 1945”, in Philip Boehm, transl., A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945, Virago Press, page 289",
          "text": "On top of that I picked a handbagful of nettles in the gardens outside the ruined buildings, elegantly plucking them using the fishnet gloves I saved from my air-raid gear.",
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        "As much as a handbag will hold."
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          "ref": "1915 August, L. C. M. Smythe, “Iyeyasu Sanbyakunen Sai”, in W. C. Smith, editor, The Missionary Survey, volume V, number 8, page 586, column 1",
          "text": "Then, Friday morning, Mr. Gumming and I, with three handbagsful, took the early train, prepared to do all honor to the man who was a very great patron of Buddhism and is now reverenced as one of the Shinto deities. […] The first day, there was not very much of a crowd, though we managed to get rid of two handbagsful of the tracts, but the second day, Saturday, things were certainly lively.",
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          "ref": "1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, in Wales on Sunday, page 22",
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          "ref": "2005, anonymous author, “Thursday, 7 June 1945”, in Philip Boehm, transl., A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945, Virago Press, page 289",
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