pillowful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls."
"If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons."
"[…]to whirl like giant ceiling fans scattering pillowsful of atomic down;[…]"

From pillow + -ful.

pillowfuls (plural) pillowsful (plural)

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