autotype
Americannoun
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Photography.
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a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.
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a print made by this process.
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noun
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a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
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an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile
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The portrait you saw was the autotype which I lent to Mr. Richmond, and concerning which I wrote to him before leaving London, directing that it should be sent to you.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
They would be so many little Mins, visiting me to soothe my exile, and bringing me, face to face and soul to soul, in the spirit, with their loving autotype at home!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
Autogravure, aw-to-grav′ūr, n. a process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Mr. Swinburne, too, regrets the miscarriage of justice; the play to him is a tragedy, and should end tragically with the punishment of the "autotype of the huge national vice of England."
From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank
Besides its great value to the autotype, Woodburytype, and mechanical printers as an agent for hardening the gelatine films, it has been recommended for all sorts of ailments photographic.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
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