Daguerreotype Definition

də-gârə-tīp
daguerreotype, daguerreotypes
noun
A photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal.
Webster's New World
A photograph made by this process.
American Heritage
This method.
Webster's New World
verb
To photograph by this method.
Webster's New World
To make a daguerreotype of.
American Heritage
(intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
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Noun

Singular:
daguerreotype
Plural:
daguerreotypes

Origin of Daguerreotype

  • From French daguerréotype. After French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

    From Wiktionary

  • French after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Daguerreotype Sentence Examples

  • Draper of New York in 1840; but it was not possible to do much in this direction until the more sensitive process of photographing on glass was introduced instead of the daguerreotype.

  • It will be noticed that no daguerreotype apparatus was listed among the goods being imported.

  • The man who attempted, with such calamitous results, to clean the daguerreotype in 1934 was Mr. John H. Gear.

  • Lloyd thinks the daguerreotype was taken earlier, around 1852.

  • The sole surviving daguerreotype of Kirker reveals a dark-skinned man with a fierce countenance.

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