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Daguerreotype

noun
1.
A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.





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... very reserved Vestals and indiscreet Paladins, the danger it had once more escaped. During the months of September and October, the rumors of a "coup d'etat" tumbled close upon one another's heels. At the same time the shadow gathered color, like a confused daguerreotype. Follow the issues of the European daily press for the months of September and October, and items like this will be ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx
... beauty, that its strata shift up and down as they change specific gravity, without being clogged by layers of prescription. But I still insist on my democratic liberty of choice, and I go for the man with the gallery of family portraits against the one with the twenty-five-cent daguerreotype, unless I find out that the last is the better ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes


Words linked to "Daguerreotype" :   photo, picture, photograph, pic, exposure


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