salonful
English
Etymology
salon + -ful
Noun
salonful (plural salonfuls)
- Enough to fill a salon.
- 1963, Sister Mary Estelle, Nuptials without love, page 108:
- To her salonful of male intellectuals and artists, she used to say: "With the majority of women whom we see and receive, it is not possible to have a sensible discourse."
- 1988, Ted Orland, Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity:
- A whole salonful of artographers!
- 2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:
- An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.
Anagrams
- sulfonal