tintype
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtɪnˌtaɪp/
- Archaic
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tintype
- Her mother took out an old tintype in an oval frame.
Examples
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l suppose that's an old tintype of your grandmother.
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The investigator studied the tintype, could draw no conclusions, except the obvious: the man was a miner, the studio portrait perhaps to commemorate a strike.
Fiction book (1996) -
You may enjoy dressing up in period costume to pose for tintype photographs in the nearby photo studio.
Academic text (1995) -
Contemporary tintypists have elevated the tintype into a highly respected art form.
Academic text (2004) -
Despite the sometimes poor reputation of the tintype, it outlasted any other 19th-century process!
Academic text (2004) -
I still have one tintype of Billy and me sitting on a velvet chair, me with ribbons in my sausage curls.
Fiction book (1998) -
However, the tintype, as it was later called, truly made photography available to the masses, not only because it was inexpensive but also because tintypes were durable and quickly produced and passed along to the customer in a matter of minutes.
Academic text (2004) -
The old tintypes showed a tall man with a beard like a wizard's and eyes that had gazed on Pickett's Charge.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her mother took out an old tintype in an oval frame.
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I suppose that's an old tintype of your grandmother.
Synonyms
An old photo made on a thin metal sheet popular in the 1800s
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tintype is easy to remember if you think of tin, a 'metal', and type, an 'image', because these old photos were made directly on thin metal plates, which is why a tintype is an early photograph on metal.