What does vaseful mean?
Vaseful means As much as a vase will hold..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
As much as a vase will hold..
a vaseful of red roses
Once or twice indeed she has asked for the shears and gone out alone as in old times returning with a load of roses, and has then demanded vases and arranged them at the pier-table in the dining-room, and carried the various vasesful to their places without any thought of weakness or difficulty.
A three-course luncheon in pink and white appointments was served, carnations and narcissus adorning the table and being present in fragrant vasesful about the rooms as well.
Here are hundreds of vases-ful brought by the manufacturer for this three-day showing starting tomorrow.
I bought from a waiter, at a large fee, two vasesful of their expensive table decoration.
There were flowers: huge vasesful of them.
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Vaseful means As much as a vase will hold..
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a vaseful of red roses
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