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- noun Plural form of
chestful .
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Examples
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They wear olive drab, black berets and chestfuls of medals.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The most recent: a televised theatrical extravaganza last month in honor of the annual "Defenders of the Fatherland Day" holiday that featured Army choirs, dancing Cossacks and teary-eyed World War II veterans with chestfuls of medals.
Hollow Tipped Threat 2007
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“By no other right, madam: we have twelve chestfuls, any one or all of which I am bound to render up to your order.”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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She was wearing now her mother's clothes of which there were chestfuls, altered for her of course.
The Rover 1923
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Still rather sleepy, drinking in chestfuls of the fresh, chill air, they stepped up, drawing their long sea-boots higher, and having to shut their eyes, dazzled at first by a light so pale, yet in such abundance.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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"By no other right, madam: we have twelve chestfuls, any one or all of which I am bound to render up to your order."
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Nor did chestfuls of pieces of eight stop arriving in Genoa.
Crooks and Liars 2010
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