Daguerreotype

Definition of daguerreotype:

part of speech: noun

Photographic picture on a silvered plate.

part of speech: noun

A method of taking sun- pictures on metal plates: a picture thus produced.

part of speech: noun

An early kind of photograph; the process preceding photography.

Usage examples for daguerreotype:

• William Mason at the Age of Eighteen 20 From a daguerreotype "Memories of a Musical Life", William Mason.

• Furthermore,- Yes, you shall have that sun- shadow, a Daguerreotype likeness, as the sun shall please to paint it: there has often been talk of getting me to that establishment, but I never yet could go. "The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.", Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• In the old daguerreotype here reproduced he is seen sitting, by his moonshee, a Brahmin of the highest caste,- see the mystic Brahmin thread which the Jesuits were accused of wearing,- from whom he learned Hindustani and, I think, a certain amount of Sanskrit. "The Adventure of Living", John St. Loe Strachey.

• When news of his bravery and death came home, the letter contained a ring and a small daguerreotype picture of me. "The Blue Birds' Winter Nest", Lillian Elizabeth Roy.