dressful
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3ADJ.
left, whole
VERB + DRESSFUL
gathered
DRESSFUL + NOUN
amanitas, navy, opportunities, sunbursts
Definitions
noun
As much as is within, on, or held by a dress.
The next time we were out she gathered a whole dressful of Amanitas, but all she got for her trouble was a severe lecture on the virtues of keeping her dress clean.
“Boy, what a dressful!” He pretended to lunge at her like an animal.
adj
Pertaining to dresses or dressing.
Mary Jane's dressful opportunities are very limited, and half the fun of life with women is dressing.
As John walks up the steps, the faithful dove glides in to him and unwinds silk from cocoons salvaged from the Egyptian ship and it flies with the precision of spiders to webs, birds building a nest and bees a hive, then binds the whole from the clouds and cloudy incense into a band of cloth, light as silk adorned in a breeze to wrap his body in a dressful cover as to be prepared to the world.
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6The next time we were out she gathered a whole dressful of Amanitas, but all she got for her trouble was a severe lecture on the virtues of keeping her dress clean.
Wiktionary“Boy, what a dressful!” He pretended to lunge at her like an animal.
WiktionaryLeft, a dressful of sunbursts, navy, red and white acetate, 8 to 16, $95.
WiktionaryMary Jane's dressful opportunities are very limited, and half the fun of life with women is dressing.
WiktionaryAs John walks up the steps, the faithful dove glides in to him and unwinds silk from cocoons salvaged from the Egyptian ship and it flies with the precision of spiders to webs, birds building a nest a
WiktionaryThis may have expressed an inner condition, or it may have been a sympathetic response to the advances of the flowers in the pretty beds and parterres so fancifully designed by the gardeners of the ad
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