daguerreotype
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- noun
- /dəˈɡɛrəˌtaɪp/
- Archaic
:
daguerrotipo
- The picture was in an oval wooden frame, inside a paper wrapping that said Britt's Daguerreotype Studio, San Francisco.
- daguerreotype portrait
- daguerreotype process
There were thousands more made that haven't survived either in their daguerreotype form or other or wet plates.
- There were thousands more made that haven't survived either in their daguerreotype form or other or wet plates.
Examples
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She inherited an old daguerreotype of her great-grandparents, which beautifully preserved their likenesses.
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Cook probably knew Barnard through William H. Harrington, who had a daguerreotype studio in New Orleans about the time Cook lived there.
Academic text (2008) -
I suspect she was sitting here holding the box with his daguerreotype when she died.
Fiction book (1995) -
For the purpose of attempting to take a daguerreotype of the Moon and Sun by aid of the Great Telescope.
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To those who were willing to pay, Cornelius taught the daguerreotype process.
Academic text (2008) -
Shortly after that time, he returned to New York City to learn the daguerreotype process under Morse.
Academic text (2008) -
" This is your great-great-grandmother," I said, showing Indy the daguerreotype.
Fiction book (1993) -
Brothers Enoch and Horatio H. Long, from New Hampshire, learned the daguerreotype process as students of Robert Cornelius in July 1842.
Academic text (2008) -
Her gaze traveled up the oak mantle to a daguerreotype of a gaunt, somber man, Eva's father.
Fiction book (2002) -
The museum displayed a stunning daguerreotype that captured a bustling street scene from the 1850s.
Synonyms
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An old photo made directly on a thin metal plate
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An image you make by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper without a camera
A picture made on a shiny metal plate using an early camera method
An early photograph that is on a glass plate from the 1800s
An old photo made on a thin metal sheet popular in the 1800s
An early way of making photographs on paper coated with chemicals that react to light
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
daguerreotype = Daguerre (opaque) = daguerre + otype
The word is eponymous (built from the inventor's name plus a specialized combining form), so its photographic meaning cannot be derived by learners from the parts alone.
Etymology
Daguerreotype is named after the French inventor Daguerre, and the ending -type means 'kind' or 'form', like the everyday word type. So a daguerreotype is the particular kind of photograph that Daguerre invented.