Crossword clues for plateful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plateful \Plate"ful\, n.; pl. Platefuls. Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
Wiktionary
n. The quantity contained on a plate
WordNet
n. the quantity contained in a plate [syn: plate]
Usage examples of "plateful".
One morning I stared balefully at a plateful of eggs that seemed hopelessly gooey and toast that looked like plasterboard, and I exploded.
An image of Neptune rose from a fountain, nymphs and fauns grinned from the corbels of houses, and the crossroads was marked by a shrine to some local spirit who had recently received a plateful of food and a bunch of flowers as an offering.
However, the food turned out to be pretty good, and Mingolla shoveled down a plateful of chicken and rice before Debora had half-finished hers.
The food turned out to be decent, however, and Mingolla shoveled down a plateful of chicken and rice before Debora had half-finished hers.
Jadrie said with satisfaction, pointing to the foot of her bed, where a jug with water beading up on its sides hid just behind the outer leg, and a plateful of slightly squashed honeycakes resided beside it.
Without replying, the count had him acommodated with a plateful of rice.
He was a coprophiliac, and sat down before a plateful of steaming excrement, his eyes vast with greed, while a scabby monkey, its bald face horribly human, bared its puckered backside to the viewer.
He could even look with equanimity at Howard's lunch: a huge plateful of steak-and-kidney pudding, Jersey new potatoes and courgettes au gratin.
So at five-thirty in the evening, everyone would gather for iftar, the meal that breaks the fast, beginning with fruit juice and a cup of lentil soup, followed by platefuls of skewered meats.
Someone got him a tankard of light ale, and someone else shoved a plateful of cheese-topped bread rounds at him, and everyone else at the table acted as if he belonged there, so he simply sat and listened while they thrashed out whatever the problem was.
They ate their potato salad with spoons and devoured platefuls of deviled eggs.
He was not a large man but he ate two huge platefuls and then a large helping of peach cobbler and he drank several large glasses of buttermilk.
He wasn’t warm, and he found his thoughts dwelling lovingly on food, great steaming platefuls of it, but finally he did sleep.
He plumped down onto a seat and appropriated a plateful of finger-bananas from the royal snack table, eating them skin and all.