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Etymology
Origin of shopful
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The jolt splintered the ice and sent glass-covered limbs clattering to earth like a shopful of shattering crystal.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Here she sat, in the little enclosure of this upper room above a shopful of strange Delikatessen, securely adrift.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
"Only don't blame me, my good Candace," said Grandpapa, laughing, whom the uproar had drawn out of his writing room, "if that monkey eats up all your shopful."
From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
Of the doctor so gentle, The other sick boys, And oh! a whole shopful Of beautiful toys!
From London Town by Crane, Thomas
A shopful of jewelry could not compare to him.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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