daguerreotype
noun
da·guerre·o·type də-ˈger-ō-ˌtīp 
-ˈger-ə-;
-ˈge-rō-,
-rə-,
also də-ˈger-ē-ō-ˌtīp,
-ˈger-ē-
: an early photograph produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate
also : the process of producing such photographs
daguerreotype transitive verb
daguerreotypist
də-ˈger-ō-ˌtī-pist
noun -ˈger-ə-;
-ˈge-rō-
-rə-
also də-ˈger-ē-ō-ˌtī-
-ˈger-ē-
daguerreotypy
də-ˈger-ō-ˌtī-pē
noun -ˈger-ə-;
-ˈge-rō-
-rə-
also də-ˈger-ē-ō-ˌtī-
-ˈger-ē-
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The show includes four images of Frederick Douglass, including a daguerreotype made around 1855 by an unknown photographer and one by B.F. Smith and Son of Portland, Maine, from 1864. 
Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022 Treasured daguerreotype was found in a descendant’s locket. The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022 The daguerreotype wouldn’t be the right period for Frederick. The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022 Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park leans toward seeing the Mormon prophet in the daguerreotype’s image. Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022 Lachlan Mackay, a Community of Christ apostle who directs that church’s historic sites in Nauvoo, Ill., and another descendant of Smith, helped analyze the locket, trace its ownership, and research the daguerreotype’s likely history. The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2022 This led to the invention of the daguerreotype, the first form of photography with practical exposure times. Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022 Philadelphian Robert Cornelius’s self-portrait, made just months after Louis Daguerre announced his daguerreotype photographic process — and more than 150 years before the debut of the iPhone. Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022 The daguerreotype, on the other hand, naively reproduced every pore that met its lens. Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021 See More
Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022 Treasured daguerreotype was found in a descendant’s locket. The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022 The daguerreotype wouldn’t be the right period for Frederick. The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022 Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park leans toward seeing the Mormon prophet in the daguerreotype’s image. Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022 Lachlan Mackay, a Community of Christ apostle who directs that church’s historic sites in Nauvoo, Ill., and another descendant of Smith, helped analyze the locket, trace its ownership, and research the daguerreotype’s likely history. The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2022 This led to the invention of the daguerreotype, the first form of photography with practical exposure times. Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022 Philadelphian Robert Cornelius’s self-portrait, made just months after Louis Daguerre announced his daguerreotype photographic process — and more than 150 years before the debut of the iPhone. Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022 The daguerreotype, on the other hand, naively reproduced every pore that met its lens. Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
French daguerréotype, from L. J. M. Daguerre + French -o- + type
First Known Use
1839, in the meaning defined above
daguerreotype
noun
as in photograph
an old type of photographic image that was made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver The exhibit includes a series of fascinating daguerreotypes from the Civil War. Synonyms & Similar Words
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