living-roomful
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From living room + -ful.
Noun[edit]
living-roomful (plural living-roomfuls)
- Enough to fill a living room.
- 1943 March 19, The Pittsburgh Press, volume 59, number 261, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 52:
- Living-Roomful of Furniture with Kroehler Suite
- 1956 July 2, Albert Rosenfeld, “The Pikes Peak Boys”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 1, page 63:
- A husky boy who looks older than his years, he is acutely aware that his three older brothers, by the time they had reached his age, had already acquired a ten-gallon-hatful of prize money and a living-roomful of trophies in competitive racing.
- 1979, Federal Trade Commission Decisions: Findings, Opinions, and Orders, July 1, 1978 to December 31, 1978, volume 92, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 956:
- Glamorous living roomfuls of furniture. . .
- 1993, David Allen, “What Lurks at the Centre of our Galaxy?”, in Patrick Moore, editor, 1994 Yearbook of Astronomy, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, pages 126–127:
- A light beam setting out to traverse one such cloud has to pass through so many living-roomfuls that it is virtually certain to bump into one of the motes of dust before journey’s end.