mosqueful

mosqueful

English

Etymology

mosque +‎ -ful

Noun

mosqueful (plural mosquefuls)

1. (rare) As many as a mosque will hold.
   • 1990, Metropolitan Home - Volume 22 - Page 72

     It's available in a mosqueful of colors, materials and patterns,

   • 2012, Joseph Skibell, The English Disease - Page 192

     They resembled a mosqueful of tiny Muslims in prayer and I made my way gingerly through them, stepping on sections of the floor in the little alleyways that separated each mat from its neighbors

   • 2012 Isabel Savory, In the Tail of the Peacock

     and surprised or forced the whole mosqueful into swearing allegiance to the present ruler.