mosqueful

English

Etymology

mosque +‎ -ful

Noun

mosqueful (plural mosquefuls)

  1. (rare) As many as a mosque will hold.
    • 1990, Metropolitan Home - Volume 22 - Page 72
      It's available in a mosqueful of colors, materials and patterns,
    • 2012, Joseph Skibell, The English Disease - Page 192
      They resembled a mosqueful of tiny Muslims in prayer and I made my way gingerly through them, stepping on sections of the floor in the little alleyways that separated each mat from its neighbors
    • 2012 Isabel Savory, In the Tail of the Peacock
      and surprised or forced the whole mosqueful into swearing allegiance to the present ruler.
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