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Daguerreotypist

Daguerreotyper \Da*guerre"o*ty`per\, Daguerreotypist \Da*guerre"o*ty`pist\, n. One who takes daguerreotypes.

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daguerreotypist

n. A person who makes daguerreotypes.

Usage examples of "daguerreotypist".

The daguerreotypist looked out at the running soldiers and then back at her.

The article might name the photographer, or daguerreotypist, or whatever they were called, and will certainly give a date for the marriage.

In the next decades his grave, impassive face, topped by the tall-crowned hat, would be painted by four white artists and photographed by many daguerreotypists, so that the deep lines down his cheeks would become familiar across the country, and he would represent the archetypal Indian chief, the man of unshakable integrity.

As for the daguerreotypist, she had read a paragraph in a penny paper, the other day, accusing him of making a speech full of wild and disorganising matter, at a meeting of his banditti-like associates.

Many persons affirmed that the history and elucidation of the facts, long so mysterious, had been obtained by the daguerreotypist from one of those mesmerical seers, who, nowadays, so strangely perplex the aspect of human affairs, and put everybody's natural vision to the blush, by the marvels which they see with their eyes shut.