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- noun Plural form of
drawerful .
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Examples
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I have drawerfuls of the stuff and LOVE sending letters, parcels and cards too.
Letters The List Writer 2008
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Not just, as Morse had suggested, the contents of a few files on the events surrounding the Tonkin Gulf incident - all that I had in early August - but the drawerfuls of critical working papers, memos, estimates, and detailed escalation options revealing the evolving plans of the Johnson Administration for a wider war, expected to commence soon after the election.
duty 2006
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Not just, as Morse had suggested, the contents of a few files on the events surrounding the Tonkin Gulf incident - all that I had in early August - but the drawerfuls of critical working papers, memos, estimates, and detailed escalation options revealing the evolving plans of the Johnson Administration for a wider war, expected to commence soon after the election.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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The first book about butterflies was published here in the 17th century and the Victorians were obsessed with collecting drawerfuls of pickled insects to show their dinner guests.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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What makeup means to women Always fascinated by women's drawerfuls of rouge, shadow and lipstick
The Guardian World News Laura Barnett 2011
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The first book about butterflies was published here in the 17th century and the Victorians were obsessed with collecting drawerfuls of pickled insects to show their dinner guests.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A single shell, so unequivocally of the period of the boulder-clay as to occur at the base of the deposit, would be worth, I have said, whole drawerfuls of fossils furnished by the better-known deposits.
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"We have drawerfuls of sunglasses," he told the Globe.
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