noctograph

[nok-tuh-graf, -grahf]

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noun

a frame used to aid the blind in writing.

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Origin of noctograph

First recorded in 1860–65; noct- + -o- + -graph

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It was a contrivance called "the noctograph," meant for the use of the blind.
William Hickling Prescott
Harry Thurston Peck