Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, same as
hellenotype .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Photog.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also
hellenotype .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun photography, dated A
picture produced bysuperposing atinted translucent print upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of aphotograph in natural colours.
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Examples
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The beauty of youth is an ivorytype; the beauty of age is an etching, bitten out by the burin and acid of thought, experience, and sorrow.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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Where it crossed the waist line in V shape, was pinned an ivorytype miniature portrait of her proud mother, painted at her own age of twenty, which looked so strikingly like the living form above, it might have been taken for the image of a twin sister.
The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire 1907
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I wish, though, I could send you the ivorytype in the drawing-room; it is cleverly colored, and would give you an idea of her hair and eyes, which of course the other will not.
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There is an exquisite ivorytype of Marjorie, in passe-partout, on the drawing-room mantel-piece.
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