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plural daguerreotypes
An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors. examples
third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped
(transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of). quotations examples
He scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerrotype my appearance indellibly [sic] and faithfully upon his mind.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 20