Meaning

As much as is within, on, or held by a dress..

Definitions by Sense

1. As much as is within, on, or held by a dress.
2. Pertaining to dresses or dressing.

Example Sentences

The next time we were out she gathered a whole dressful of Amanitas, but all she got for her trouble was a severe lecture on the virtues of keeping her dress clean.

“Boy, what a dressful!” He pretended to lunge at her like an animal.

Left, a dressful of sunbursts, navy, red and white acetate, 8 to 16, $95.

She lays my body out between the charred blunt stubble and the sun, seals my eyes shut with her tongue; then fetches dressfuls of freshly scythed grass to pour over me, all the while singing those tone-deaf songs she knows.

Mary Jane's dressful opportunities are very limited, and half the fun of life with women is dressing.

As John walks up the steps, the faithful dove glides in to him and unwinds silk from cocoons salvaged from the Egyptian ship and it flies with the precision of spiders to webs, birds building a nest and bees a hive, then binds the whole from the clouds and cloudy incense into a band of cloth, light as silk adorned in a breeze to wrap his body in a dressful cover as to be prepared to the world.

This may have expressed an inner condition, or it may have been a sympathetic response to the advances of the flowers in the pretty beds and parterres so fancifully designed by the gardeners of the administration, or it may have been a token of the helpless submission to which the windows of the milliners and modistes reduced all comers of the dressful sex.

Word Forms

• dressfuls
• more dressful
• most dressful

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When Should You Use Dressful?

Use dressful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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