daguerreotypy

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daguerreotype

da·guerre·o·type

D0006300 (də-gâr′ə-tīp′)n.1. An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.2. A photograph made by this process.tr.v. da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing, da·guerre·o·types To make a daguerreotype of.
[French, after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre.]
da·guerre′o·typ′er n.da·guerre′o·typ′y n.