Roofful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quantity that sits on a roof.

    "Every hut had the same accessories — a bedraggled woman and a tangle of children on the mud floor, a roofful of vultures and a great pile of the most beautiful pearl shells drifted like snow against the house."

Example

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"Every hut had the same accessories — a bedraggled woman and a tangle of children on the mud floor, a roofful of vultures and a great pile of the most beautiful pearl shells drifted like snow against the house."

Etymology

From roof + -ful.

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