All 3 Uses
capacious
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)
- adjusted his capacious waistcoat
p. 42.8 *capacious = large
- This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
p. 60.5
- How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its reach!
p. 77.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(capacious) large in capacity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)