flower-potful

Noun

flowerpotful (plural flowerpotfuls or flowerpotsful)

1. As much as a flowerpot will hold.
   • “Why, lawks, Mrs. Jones!” said a woman of the lower type of lodging-house keeper, as she stood on the gravel walk and spoke to a middle-aged female on the lawn, whose clothes were as gaily coloured as a parrot’s, and who wore a Gampian bonnet trimmed with a flowerpotful of cabbage roses and a plume...1866, Cuthbert Bede [pen name; Edward Bradley], “At the Pavilion”, in Mattins and Mutton’s; or, The Beauty of Brighton. A Love Story., volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, pages 88–89