"skirtful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skirtfuls [plural], skirtsful [plural]
Etymology: From skirt + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|skirt|ful|pos=noun}} skirt + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|+|skirtsful}} skirtful (plural skirtfuls or skirtsful)
  1. As much as is within, on, or held by a skirt.
    Sense id: en-skirtful-en-noun-IivDe6SB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for skirtful meaning in English (2.1kB)

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          "text": "“After a little while, lifting his head from the collar of reflection, he removed the talisman of silence from the treasure of speech, and scattered skirtsful of brilliant gems and princely pearls before the company in his mirth-exciting deliveries.”—Oriental Bahar-Danush.",
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          "text": "But the boy nerved himself; he would not loiter to gaze at it, but strode into the cottage and began hacking with great fierceness at the nettles, which Tilda—her hands cased in a pair of old pruning gloves—gathered in skirtfuls and carried out of door.",
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          "ref": "2007, Constance Leeds, “Summertime: July 23, 1096”, in The Silver Cup, Viking",
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          "text": "But the boy nerved himself; he would not loiter to gaze at it, but strode into the cottage and began hacking with great fierceness at the nettles, which Tilda—her hands cased in a pair of old pruning gloves—gathered in skirtfuls and carried out of door.",
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