noun. An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.

noun. A photograph made by this process.

transitive verb. To make a daguerreotype of.

noun. One of the earliest processes of photography, the invention of L. J. M. Daguerre of Paris, first published in 1839, by which the lights and shadows of a landscape or a figure are fixed on a prepared metallic plate by the action of actinic light-rays.

noun. A picture produced by the above process.

Relating to or produced by daguerreo-type.

To produce by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

transitive verb. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

transitive verb. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

noun. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

noun. The process of taking such pictures.

noun. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.

verb. To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

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

"When Louis heard the process referred to as the daguerreotype, he felt a sting of embarrassment; all the geriatric men of the Academy—patent-holders with hooded eyes, aldermen with aquiline noses and snuff pouches—peered in his direction."

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