daguerreotypenoun [ C ]
uk/dəˈɡer.ə.taɪp/us/dəˈɡer.ə.taɪp/the first successfully produced type of photograph
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- low-resolution
- negative
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
- superimpose
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Examples from literature
- My children have my daguerreotype.
- One of the most pathetic was a small daguerreotype of a beautiful young girl.
- She had taken out a daguerreotype of her husband, and was looking at it.
- She produced a piece of white paper in which the daguerreotype had been folded.
- Then there were one or two daguerreotypes, little full-length figures framed in gold paper.