autumnful

English

Etymology

autumn +‎ -ful

Noun

autumnful (plural autumnfuls)

1. An amount that lasts through or is produced during one autumn season.
   • 1981, Alvaro Cardona-Hine, Half Eaten Angel - Volume 1, page 29:

     One is of a duck, for all its feathered glory, lying unaccountably dead in the midst of an autumnful of fruit; the other an idyl, a meadow-curving pregnancy of bloom becoming orchard, the sunlight busy with its probes.

   • 2010, Curt D. Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, page 410:

     Aldo and Carl had an autumnful of grouse and pheasant hunts, using the shack as basecamp for excursions into the tamarack swamps of Adams County.

   • 2018, Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids:

     The dirt was humid and black, difficult to find under several autumnfuls of leaves, but a few scattered spots of neon yellow stood out.