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daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype (; ) process, or daguerreotypy , was the first publicly announced photographic process, and for nearly twenty years, it was the one most commonly used. It was invented by Louis-Jaques-Mandé Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839. By 1860, ...
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n. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors. vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype#Noun ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, from French daguerreotype , coined from name of inventor, Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) + -type (see type (n.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Usage examples of daguerreotype.
A faded daguerreotype of a young girl with a plump toddler cradled in her arms.
Drew took the locket and studied the yellowing daguerreotype nestled within.
The newspaper clippings were scanned and recorded, the book recorded page by page, the daguerreotype image recorded.
Lewis sat alone in his office, contemplating the heap of yellowed paper, the blackened fragments of the box, the daguerreotype in its felt-backed case.
He sat up in his chair and put the daguerreotype and the other contents of the old box in a neat white carton.
Lewis had himself purchased the daguerreotype, and now it was one of several framed images Lewis owned and represented to his occasional mortal guests as long-departed family members.
He no longer kept the daguerreotype on displayit was fabulously antique nowbut he liked being able to see Edward.
Just before closing it, he went to a cabinet and took out a little bubblewrap package containing the old daguerreotype of Edward, nesting it between two shirts.
And, replacing the daguerreotype, Soames took a taxi to the Poultry, reflecting as he went.
The daguerreograph clicked as it impressed a daguerreotype of her empty chair.
Algernon impressed a daguerreotype of Istvan Szagy in the doorway before he lowered the miniature daguerreograph and followed him through.
Algernon brought the miniature daguerreograph up from behind his back and pressed a daguerreotype of Lord Quinnipiac, kneeling in front of a Papist official in full regalia, transferring control of a Crown Privy Report binder.
Holmes, standing beside a framed daguerreotype of the little doctor that hung on the wall.
Rivington men somehow obtained a daguerreotype of Senator Walker enjoying the, ah, intimate embraces of a woman not his wife.
The man and woman stepped into the room stify side by side as though right out of a familiar, though esoteric, anniversary daguerreotype on a wall.