daguerreotype


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
daguerreotype /dəˈgɛrətʌɪp/ (also daguerrotype)
noun a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapour.
– origin C19: from Fr. daguerréotype, named after L.-J.-M. Daguerre, its French inventor.
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