valiseful
English
Etymology
valise + -ful
Noun
valiseful (plural valisefuls)
- A quantity contained in a valise.
- 1913, O. Henry, The four million, page 199:
- I saw you collar the late president's valiseful of boodle.
- 1943, Sidney Joseph Perelman, The dream department, page 167:
- If that advertisement is any indication, a few valisefuls of these gadgets would make Gautama Buddha look like a prairie evangelist.
- 2010, Robert Goddard, Take No Farewell, page 28:
- It was there, on a day of raw greyness contrasting sharply with my previous visit to Hereford, that I made my way for tea at the appointed time, clutching a valiseful of perspective views and floor plans for the new house.
- 2011, Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens:
- He was a sad gruff little man; but he had a valiseful of medicines, and he impressed her with his air of science, and she liked him.
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