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closetful

American  
[kloz-it-fool] / ˈklɒz ɪtˌfʊl /

noun

  • closetfuls
    plural
  1. an amount sufficient to fill a closet.

    a closetful of new clothes.


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Etymology

Origin of closetful

closet + -ful

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Dana Conway, the Milo Minderbinder of the story, who can source anything, anyhow, and keeps a closetful of things she shouldn’t have; nervous Pvt.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2024

Even more helpful, however, was a closetful of Chanel.

From Washington Post Feb. 14, 2023

No more after-school trips with his mom for pizza at Papa Murphy’s; no more handmade birthday gifts she’d conjured from her closetful of craft supplies.

From Slate May 19, 2016

Or was it more of the same old scandal, one more shoe dropping when we already knew he had a closetful?

From Time Jul. 24, 2013

How could girls with perfect hair and a closetful of stylish flannels from Hot Topic be wrong about anything?

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Joan and Ethel have bought a couple of closetfuls of creations by Manhattan Designer Nancy Herzlinger, a lithe, attractive mother of four.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its mainframe business, the core of the company, is being undermined by microchip miracles that make today's low-cost desktops as powerful as yesterday's closetfuls.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could have produced closetfuls of "heirlooms" in attestation of this fact; for it is one more mark of Eleanor's competence that her friends usually pay the interest on her philanthropy.

From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton

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