decadeful

English

Etymology

decade +‎ -ful

Noun

decadeful (plural decadefuls or decadesful)

1. The amount that fills or is produced in a decade.
   • 1979 December 3, Nancy McKeon, “Best Bets”, in New York Magazine, volume 12, number 47, page 89:

     A retrospective gives us a decadeful of his watercolors.

   • 1983, N. C. Manganyi, Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele, page 287:

     Because really I've come to measure my life in decadefuls.

   • 2001, Kurt Gänzl, The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: A-Gi, page 241:

     At first a performer, then a conductor in the musical theatre, Bratton later moved into the production of "dollar circuit" touring plays and musical comedies (The Dingbat Family, The Newlyweds and Their Baby, Let George Do It, etc), in partnership with Johnny Leffler, whilst also composing more than a decadeful of songs, which were used both as decoration for his own productions and, interpolated into musical comedies on both sides of the Atlantic, in those of others.

   • 2007, Joyelle McSweeney, Flet: A Novel, page 14:

     The moment has slipped free of time. It could exist in decadesful of instants.