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Daguerreotype   Listen
verb
Daguerreotype  v. t.  (past & past part. daguerreotyped; pres. part. daguerreotyping)  
1.
To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
2.
To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.





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"Daguerreotype" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Valparaiso. This lad, they stated, sojourned in Melipilla eighteen months, and finally went back to Valparaiso and re-embarked for England. Don Tomas Castro, the doctor's wife, and others, declared they recognised the features of this lad in the portrait of the Claimant; and being shown two daguerreotype portraits of Roger Tichborne, taken in Chili when he was there, said that the features were not like those of any person they had ever known. Searches were then made in the records of the consul's office at Valparaiso, ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... breaking the Democratic success of forty years. It was during this year that Samuel F.B. Morse obtained his first American patent on the telegraph. William Draper of New York turned out the most successful daguerreotype portraits yet obtained. Florence, the actor, made his first appearance at the National Theatre in Philadelphia, while Fanny Ellsler appeared at the Park Theatre in New York City. Ralph Waldo Emerson published the "Dial." ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson
... crowding over her again in the light of Dick's revelation. His father and mother! The stern old Colonel, of whom Dick always spoke with such respectful loyalty in spite of their quarrel, and the dear mother, whose tender eyes gazing from the old-fashioned daguerreotype Dick always carried had made her choke with sudden tears—these two were Uncle Noah's beloved "ol' Massa ...
— Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration • Leona Dalrymple


Words linked to "Daguerreotype" :   pic, photo


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