Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An early type of photograph made by imaging a negative on glass backed by a dark surface.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In photography, a picture made by applying a dark backing to the face of a thin negative on glass. The negative, as seen from behind, thus appears as a positive against the backing, the lights being formed by the opaque portions, and the shadows by the backing seen through the more or less transparent portions.
Wiktionary
- n. an early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Photog.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
Etymologies
- Greek ambrotos, immortal; see ambrosia + type. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Father suggested that we put a written notice in the business office, and that very afternoon Dr. Richards knocked at our door, saying the ambrotype was his.”
“Tell Miss Ella I was looking at her "ambrotype" last Sunday in church, my cousin admired it very much, indeed I am afraid he will fall in love with it which would certainly be quite unfortunate as she is engaged.”
Augusta County: Clinton Hatcher to Mary Anna Sibert, May 29, 1861
“The process flourished less than two decades before "ambrotype," the next of many successively faster and cheaper photographic processes, began to replace it.”
“Your ambrotype stills keeps good, and as I gaze on it my heart is with you then again.”
Letter from Young John Allen to his mother, Nancy Hutchins,October 7, 1867
“In November 1863 Phylinda Humiston heard of the story and recognized the details of the ambrotype.”
“Removing a small ambrotype from his pocket, he looked at the 3 children whom he would never see again and there died.”
“In January 1864 Dr. Bourns traveled to Porterville to return the ambrotype to Phylinda.”
“In order to accomplish this he had copies of the ambrotype made into the popularcartes de visite and had them distributed in the north.”
“This hand-colored ambrotype of Olivia Langdon was probably made in 1867.”
“Ada wished there were a way to capture what she was hearing in the way an ambrotype captures images, so it could be held in reserve for the benefit of a future whose residents might again need access to what it stood for.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ambrotype’.
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (A)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
abalone, abbey, abundant, aconite, acorn, addled, adept, aeon, aerie, aglow, ague, aire and 99 more...
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Gravity's Rainbow
labile, memento mori, rallentando, ouspenskian, lascar, dodderer, prophesying, laudanum, empyrean, bedlamite, rondure, tantamount and 38 more...
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exposure
being words related to photography and the photographic arts
cyanotype, tintype, lithograph, daguerreotype, calotype, rayograph, photogram, ambrotype, collotype, luminogram, kallitype, platinotype and 29 more...
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wakest's Words
ambrotype, quincunx, triptych, ambrosia, bliss, hyphen, comma, glistered, glistering, cisternal, furax
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