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plateful
[ pleyt-fool ]
noun
- the amount that a plate will hold.
- a large portion or quantity:
a plateful of contracts to negotiate.
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But as we laid waste to the plateful, we loved them more and more.
He will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine.
I've got some rattling good snuff, and I'll give you a pinch for a plateful, as I did up in Staffordshire.
So she disappeared into the Stabur and brought out a plateful of multebaer, which she handed him with a friendly nod.
Selingman plunged into a fresh tirade, pointing to the half-demolished plateful of cakes.
I obtained a large plateful of the weed and emptied the sugar basin and cream jug over it.
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