mirrorful

English

Etymology

From mirror +‎ -ful.

Noun

mirrorful (plural mirrorfuls or mirrorsful)

1. The amount reflected by a mirror.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Richard Kell, “Two Poems”, in Rann, page 7:

     Eyes are gazing on boys who explode from springboards to shell the sea, and joyfully splinter its mirrorful of sunset.

   • 1898 November, H. E. Walton, “A Catholic Tribute to Sir Walter Scott”, in The Month: A Catholic Magazine, twenty-fifth year, number 413 / new series, number 23, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; Baltimore, Md.: John Murphy and Co.; New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: Benziger Brothers, page 462:

     He is indeed, no Fra Angelico holding up a little mirrorful of Heaven, with heart and mind so filled to overflowing with the Beatific Vision, as to leave no room for understanding of earthly misery and sin.

   • 1967, The Omega, page 46:

     OUR CHEERFUL MIRRORFUL

   • 1967 February, D[avid] G[uy] Compton, “It’s Smart to Have an English Address”, in SF Impulse, volume 1, number 12, page 93:

     He felt his mind fading, the keys of the piano red, the glass pillars holding up the world cracking one by one, each with a separate sound like a toothache. Above the splitting he still tried to explain to Joseph, to explain to McKay. He tried to weep. And they didn’t hear him, but ground on. Thousands of them. Mirrorsful of them . . . The keys of the piano were hard, and slightly warm, and stretched away white again like satin ribbon.

   • 1970, Brewster Ghiselin, Country of the Minotaur, University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 11:

     Yet I concede pride’s pool, that mirrorful, / Aflare with the armadas of a day: / Science like elate Longfellow’s Ship of State, / Praises about the prow, factory-loud / Midships scattering light, a peacock wake; […]

   • 1978, Ted Walker, Burning the Ivy: Poems 1973-77, London: Jonathan Cape, […], →ISBN, page 38:

     Mountain ponies / Driving before dawn, higher than the kindling streams where gradients were too steep for grass, I glimpsed them, life-like, a mirrorful silvered on the dark, gouged like a frieze along edges of rock.

   • 1986, 2 Plus 2: A Collection of International Writing, Lausanne: Mylabris Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     Distress works on the face of that woman who would look for herself in me as if in a mirrorful of smiling meadows, and at the one you will see as oddly alien: my own ghost condemned to my form of this world.

   • 1987, “James (Stewart Alexander) Simmons 1933-”, in Daniel G. Marowski, Roger Matuz, et al., editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 43, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company, →ISBN, page 410:

     The rare breaks from the mirrorfuls of poets work best: for example, the droll humour of “Buchanan’s Fancy”, where body-searches in Belfast are seen as sought-after sexual titillation.

   • 1989 October, Ivor Wilkins, “The Hidden Algarve”, in Cruising World, page 93, columns 1–2:

     Thistledown hung suspended, a canopy of stars overhead, a mirrorful of stars beneath.

   • 1990, Mary Towne, Steve the Sure, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 42:

     Steve himself had a mirrorful of blue ribbons at home from previous Potter’s archery tournaments, but Rita didn’t have to know that.

   • 1997, Car and Driver, page 101:

     Anyway, aside from the ongoing irritation of a mirrorful of wing, you tend to forget about the surface excitement when you’re snugged into the excellent driver’s seat and the flat-four engine starts emitting its authoritative bark.

   • 2001, Daniel Blore, Goat Rope: A Pilot’s Tale, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 59:

     I’m thinking, I’ll get a mirrorful of coke, set it on the end of the bed, and when she bends over to get it, nail her.

   • 2005, Sarah Gridley, Weather Eye Open, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     Whether impasse takes over the puddle or speeches the mirrorful side-step.

   • 2014, Karen Deal Robinson, Magic in Exile, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

     Bev scooped up a mirrorful of the icy water at her feet and followed Alder through the rocky den and out its second entrance, which was even narrower than the first.

Adjective

mirrorful (comparative more mirrorful, superlative most mirrorful)

1. Covered in mirrors.
   • 1921, Rupert Hughes, Beauty, Harper & Brothers, page 152:

     In the mirrorful elevator a few women looked at him with dread lest his soppiness should smirch their fabrics.

   • 1981, Forbes, page 20:

     The room is a clean, mirrorful knockout; […]

2. mirror-like; reflective.
   • 1994, Dorine Mignot, editor, Joan Jonas: Works, 1968-1994, →ISBN, page 18:

     To use the mirror to position herself differently as a difference that makes a difference, as a mirrorful space which is concave; convex; opaque; transparent; distorted and distorting; disoriented; shattered; broken […]

   • 2010, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, Afoot and Delighthearted, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 143:

     I’ve cowarded into a quiet shape / Passing alone into an empty mirror / Refusing to see myself, using my cape / To cover all mirrorful eyes like a deathsheet drape.