buildingful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   enough to fill a building

   • You could see a whole buildingful for one franc at the Great Exhibition in Paris that very summer; and even if the new Paris Guide had been composed by literary masters, the crowds behaved childishly, possessively, destructively.
   • When they'd arrived the night before in the pitch black after Lights Out, Gwen had taken one breath of the barracks' odor—that fluid, murky smell of a buildingful of women at close quarters—and dread had spread inside her.
   • When you're a seventeen year-old full of spunk and Ideas, a loving home can seem a straightjacket, never mind a buildingful of orphan brats and illegitimate bastards.

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