daguerreotype

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[10] The idea, thus early born, lay in oblivion until 1760, when the daguerreotype was again clearly indicated in a book published in Paris, written by a certain Tiphanie de la Roche, under the anagrammatic title of Giphantie.

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  1. noun An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.
  2. noun A photograph made by this process.
  3. transitive verb To make a daguerreotype of.

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  1. French, after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre.

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  1. from French daguerréotype; from Daguerre + -type.
  2. from daguerreotype, n.
 

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/dæˈgɛrətaɪp/
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