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a mirror made via the method of making mirrors out of plate glass invented by 16th-century Venetian glassmakers, who covered the back of the glass with mercury, obtaining near-perfect and undistorted reflection.

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  1. n. a mirror made via the method of making mirrors out of plate glass invented by 16th-century Venetian glassmakers, who covered the back of the glass with mercury, obtaining near-perfect and undistorted reflection.