parcelful
nounEtymology From parcel + -ful.
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Enough to fill a parcel.
- As she liked books, he even thought of taking her a whole parcelful as a surprise—some that he had left in one of his trunks in the loft.[c. 1900], Émile Zola, The Masterpieces of Emile Zola, Lutetian Society, page 149:
- The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.1967, Swami Nityatmananda, D. P. Gupta, ‘M’—the Apostle and the Evangelist: A Continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Civil Lines, Rohtak: Sri Ramakrishna—Sri Ma Prakashan, page 3:
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- A parcelful of reasons.2017, Chris Nickson, On Copper Street: A Tom Harper Mystery, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN: