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Probably ancient if it's a magic mirror. Also in the original story, snow white is 7 at this time, not 14.
That said, "hottest" is something this comic came up with, I'm pretty sure it's not about sexually attractiveness in the original
The bear from "The bear and the maiden fair" disagrees.
It's "fairest," right? So maybe the mirror just saw her doing stuff like meticulously cutting a cake into evenly-sized pieces instead of portioning out bigger ones for herself and her cronies. That'd be plausible for a 7 year old.
That's the English text. In the German original (Wikipedia ), it says wer ist die schönste Frau (who is the most beautiful woman):
In addition, the evil queen originally is the mother of Snow White.
fair in this context refers to paleness basically. though, it's often meant in the same way that someone today might say "she's thicc" and just mean "she's attractive" in a more general sense. fairness meant beauty to European high society at the time. aside from the obvious racial connotations, it also implies that she has spent very little time outdoors and has been free of disfiguring diseases, so high of status. it generally carries a lot of implications beyond just "white" and "clear skin". it captures everything that a European nobleman of the time would find attractive in one word.