What does shipful mean?
Shipful means As much as a ship will hold..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
As much as a ship will hold..
And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see.
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Shipful means As much as a ship will hold..
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And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see.
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