daguerréotype

Definitions of daguerréotype
  1. noun
    a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
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    illustration, image, photo, prise de vue
    a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
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