Proper use of "replete"

Is replete used appropriately in the following sentence?

His office was like a Hollywood museum, replete with an autographed photo of Marilyn Monroe.

Or should replete only be used with categorical plurals, such as:

His office was like a Hollywood museum, replete with autographed photos of famous stars.


Solution 1:

If a room is replete with something, then it's full or abundantly supplied with it. If there's only one thing -- in this case, a picture of Marilyn Monroe -- then the room can't be replete with it.

Solution 2:

I'll just add to the other answers that the first sentence would be much better off with the other "plete" word, complete.

Solution 3:

Given that replete means gorged, plentiful, stuffed. From the Latin repleo, meaning "to fill up".

I doubt a place can be replete with a single autograph.

However, I have seen it used in worse context.

Solution 4:

The more correct sentence is the second one.
The first sentence you wrote could be understood as describing a very small office, so small that a photograph would fill it.

You can use replete with a singular noun, as in

Sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery.