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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

Towering Jordan Donica announces his arrival as heartthrob Lancelot with a buoyantly operatic “C’est Moi,” and costume designer Jennifer Moeller wraps Soo in a beguiling closetful of chic frocks.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

“It” was a lot of things: a successful career as a writer, love, marriage, a closetful of Chanel or even money to pay the rent.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2018

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

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

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

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

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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