Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quantity that a vase will contain.
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- noun As much as a
vase will hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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So it was with shock that she entered his room one day with a vaseful of fresh roses to find him dispensing a clear liquid into a glass with an eyedropper.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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He waved at the table he had ** bottles and glasses, platesful of breads, cheeses, sausage, lox, — * ™ r tanuba, from somewhere a vaseful of flowers.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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A sudden puff of wind blew in through the open window, disarranging the grouping of a vaseful of flowers, and Ann crossed the room to rectify the damage.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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And gazing as if indifferently at a vaseful of roses, she asked, with a feeling of suffocation:
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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"We'll have a big vaseful of wild roses in the center and one single rose in front of everybody's plate -- and a special bouquet of rosebuds only by Mrs. Morgan's -- an allusion to" The Rosebud Garden ", you know."
Anne of Avonlea 1909
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Another vaseful stood on the table beside the basket.
The Golden Road 1908
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Just beneath the picture, on the top shelf of the bookcase, was a vaseful of flowers.
The Golden Road 1908
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"We'll have a big vaseful of wild roses in the center and one single rose in front of everybody's plate -- and a special bouquet of rosebuds only by Mrs. Morgan's -- an allusion to 'The Rosebud Garden' you know."
Anne of Avonlea 1908
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