daguerreotype

[ duh-gair-uh-tahyp, -ee-uh-tahyp ]

/ dəˈgɛər əˌtaɪp, -i əˌtaɪp /

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noun

an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.

a picture made by this process.

verb (used with object), da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing.

to photograph by this process.

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Origin of daguerreotype

1830–40; named after L. J. M. Daguerre; see -o-, -type

OTHER WORDS FROM daguerreotype

da·guerre·o·typ·er, da·guerre·o·typ·ist, nounda·guerre·o·typ·ic

[duh-gair-uh-tip-ik, -ee-uh-tip-], /dəˌgɛər əˈtɪp ɪk, -i əˈtɪp-/, adjectiveda·guerre·o·typ·y, noun

Words nearby daguerreotype

Dagon, Dago red, D.Agr., Dagu, Daguerre, daguerreotype, Dagwood sandwich, dah, dahabeah, Dahl, Dahlgren

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How to use daguerreotype in a sentence

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.
Lincoln in Love|Jerome Charyn|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States|Martin R. Delany
As I have seen a daguerreotype from a picture painted when he was seventeen, I can give some sort of answer to this question.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks
It renders the general outlines of the original with almost the fidelity of a daguerreotype.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II|Various

She had placed it in the inner gilt rim of an old daguerreotype, which set it off very nicely.
A Bookful of Girls|Anna Fuller
And all this while the picture lay upon the bureau—the square, old-fashioned daguerreotype, which Katy shrank from opening.
Family Pride|Mary J. Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for daguerreotype

daguerreotype

/ (dəˈɡɛrəʊˌtaɪp) /

noun

one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour

a photograph formed by this process

Derived forms of daguerreotype

daguerreotyper or daguerreotypist, noundaguerreotypy, noun

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