"pillowful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pillowfuls [plural], pillowsful [plural]
Etymology: From pillow + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pillow|ful|pos=noun}} pillow + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|+|pillowsful}} pillowful (plural pillowfuls or pillowsful)
  1. Enough to fill a pillow.
    Sense id: en-pillowful-en-noun-R479naBC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls.",
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          "ref": "1971, Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare: Verse and Prose, London: Jonathan Cape, page 26",
          "text": "If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons.",
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