galleryfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

galleryful (複数形 galleryfuls または galleriesful)

1. A quantity that fills a gallery.
   • 1922, The Education Outlook - Volume 74, page 71:

     An essential part of the scheme was the " Gallery Lesson " conducted by specially gifted teachers who spent the whole day in dealing with a large galleryful of children, made up of several classes grouped together for this purpose.

   • 2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, page 179:

     Sex, the subject of librariesful of books, galleriesful of art and even, as we have seen, an occasional laboratoryful of science; the object of inquisitions and persecutions, of worship and reverence; the star of subliminal advertising, the glory of morning glory and the power of the sunflower, the Shaper of the lotus-yoni and mighty Priapus, the three-letter word that rhymes with hex—sex, created by evolution to speed up the dance (so say the Evolutionists), used by the Horned One to ensnare human souls (so say the Creationists).

   • 2013, T. F. Evans, George Bernard Shaw, page 55:

     Indeed, not one portrait, but a whole galleryful would be required, for there are ever so many Mr. Shaws