daguerreotype

[ duh-gair-uh-tahyp, -ee-uh-tahyp ]

noun

1. an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
2. a picture made by this process.

verb (used with object)

, da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing.

1. to photograph by this process.

daguerreotype

/ dəˈɡɛrəʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
2. a photograph formed by this process

Derived Forms

• daˈguerreoˌtyper, noun
• daˈguerreoˌtypy, noun

Other Words From

• da·guerreo·typer da·guerreo·typist noun
• da·guerre·o·typ·ic [d, uh, -gair-, uh, -, tip, -ik, -ee-, uh, -, tip, -], adjective
• da·guerreo·typy noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of daguerreotype¹

1830–40; named after L. J. M. Daguerre; -o-, -type

Example Sentences

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.

From The Daily Beast

Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.

From Project Gutenberg

As I have seen a daguerreotype from a picture painted when he was seventeen, I can give some sort of answer to this question.

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It renders the general outlines of the original with almost the fidelity of a daguerreotype.

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She had placed it in the inner gilt rim of an old daguerreotype, which set it off very nicely.

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And all this while the picture lay upon the bureau—the square, old-fashioned daguerreotype, which Katy shrank from opening.

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