fluteful
English
Etymology
From flute + -ful.
Noun
fluteful (plural flutefuls or flutesful)
- The amount that a flute (type of glass) will hold.
- 1992 August, Randall Wallace, Where Angels Watch, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 88:
- The waiter left the whole bottle, of course, and Sonata drank three flutesful.
- 1999, Catherine Lanigan, Tender Malice, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 265:
- When she finally looked up, he handed her a fluteful of champagne, clinking his glass to hers when she pronounced her approval.
- 2010, Paul Traywick, Signals from a Lampless Beacon: Their Burdens Lifted, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 135:
- He poured flutefuls for them all and handed them around.
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