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streetful|ˈstriːtfʊl|
Pl. streetfuls (less correctly streets-full).
[f. street n. + -ful.]
As much or as many as a street will hold.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. ii, The dull street-lamps disclose only streetfuls of haggard countenances. 1846Dickens Pictures from Italy, Rome 177 The carriages..showing, the whole street-full, through the storm of flowers. 1901A. Birrell in N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 252 Majuba Hill made Tories in streetfuls. 1914J. C. Cox in Antiquary (1915) XI. 17/2 The University and Library [of Louvain were] obliterated, and streets-full of houses destroyed by wanton and deliberate incendiaries. |