DAGUERREOTYPE


Meaning of DAGUERREOTYPE in English

n. 1 a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapour. 2 this process.

[ L. Daguerre, Fr. inventor d. 1851 ]

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