Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photographic plate prepared for use in a stereopticon.
- noun A plate prepared for use in a stereopticon.
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Examples
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They arranged special seasonal concerts, vaudeville performances, lantern-slide lectures, and religious services.
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To introduce the YMCA, an American secretary held a lantern-slide show that described Association work.
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Sellers: (older voice) Namely the original lantern-slide type wireless Goon Show.
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The trees outside were only lantern-slide illusions.
The Eternal Wall Raymond Z. Gallun 1952
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When Mrs. Worthington came back from Europe and opened her house to the City Federation, and gave a colored lantern-slide lecture on "An evening with the Old Masters," serving punch from her own cut-glass punch bowl instead of renting the hand-painted crockery bowl of the queensware store, the old dull pain came back into the hearts of the dwellers in the inner circle.
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Hunt, and Mr. George R. Dean has given a lantern-slide exhibition, illustrating the Château de Blois.
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Ordinary bromide paper is about as sensitive as the process or slow dry plate or the average lantern-slide plate, and requires as much care as either, but not nearly so much as the most rapid dry plates.
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After the second hymn he would announce the coming social events -- class prayer-meetings and lantern-slide lectures by missionaries.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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She wished it could be gone for ever, like a lantern-slide which was broken.
Women in Love 1907
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When Mrs. Worthington came back from Europe and opened her house to the City Federation, and gave a coloured lantern-slide lecture on "An evening with the Old Masters," serving punch from her own cut-glass punch bowl instead of renting the hand-painted crockery bowl of the queensware store, the old dull pain came back into the hearts of the dwellers in the inner circle.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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