concertful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]concertful (plural concertfuls or concertsful)
- A quantity that fills a concert.
- 1956, Peter Hugh Reed, ARG - Volumes 22-23, page 90:
- Perhaps some will find a whole concertful of them rather too much for a single sitting.
- 1956, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 212, page 95:
- This concerto, composed exclusively for a Paris performance, never to be played elsewhere, took the critics by storm after they had waited out several concertsful of suspense.
- 1974, Artforum - Volume 13, Issues 4-10, page 35:
- Bengston doing a roomful of painting is like Joe Willie Namath doing a gameful of curl patterns, Jason Robards doing an eveningful of O'Neill, Tina Turner doing a concertful of. . . . and so on.
- 2017, Kurt Ganzl, Victorian Vocalists:
- Carpenter 'entertained', and in between the spoken portions he and the girls delivered a concertful of light, ballady music.