decanterful
English
Etymology
decanter + -ful
Noun
decanterful (plural decanterfuls)
- Enough to fill a decanter.
- 1924, Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, That which Happened, page 44:
- After emptying a decanterful of water over his head, the Collector flung the decanter out of a window.
- 1972, Angela Carter, The War of Dreams, page 62:
- The clerk opened a cupboard to reveal half a decanterful of mayoral sherry, now grown viscous as treacle, groped on a lower shelf and produced the fur-collared overcoat the Mayor had left behind him on the snowy morning he vanished.
- 1976, Evelyn Waugh, Michael Davie, The diaries of Evelyn Waugh - Volume 1976, Part 2, page 193:
- We found a huge dish of fruit which someone had sent and a decanterful of white port.
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