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DAGUERREOTYPE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("daguerreotype" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)