"black mirror" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Arnaud Maillet, translated by Jeff Fort, The Claude glass: use and meaning of the black mirror in western art, New York: Zone Books, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "Thus, when Manet speaks of using the black mirror—and X-ray examinations of the head seem to confirm his statements—he does so, apparently, in the manner of those Renaissance painters who saw it as a “judge” and “master”.",
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          "text": "She had marvellous eyes; great, wide-open, and as black and soft as velvet, with a mysterious depth. To look in them was like gazing at a black mirror such as Doctor Dee used in his wizard rites.",
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        "A mirror used to practice divination or other magic rituals."
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