29 January 2017

daguerreotype

[duh-gair-uh-tahyp, -ee-uh-tahyp]

noun

1. an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
2. a picture made by this process.
verb (used with object), daguerreotyped, daguerreotyping.
3. to photograph by this process.

Origin of daguerreotype

1830-1840; named after L. J. M. Daguerre; see -o-, -type

Related forms

daguerreotyper, daguerreotypist, noun
daguerreotypic [duh-gair-uh-tip-ik, -ee-uh-tip-] (Show IPA), adjective
daguerreotypy, noun

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Examples from the Web for daguerreotype

Contemporary Examples

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.
Lincoln in Love
Jerome Charyn
February 13, 2014

Historical Examples

The daguerreotype was followed in 1850 by the present “photograph.”
Invention
Bradley A. Fiske

It was a daguerreotype, faded and silvered; but the features were those of his wife!
The Crusade of the Excelsior
Bret Harte

Anagram

a deeper yogurt
a greedy troupe
a retyped rouge

Today’s quote

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers … we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On this day

29 January 1979 – 16 year old, Brenda Spencer shoots two men dead and wounds nine children at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. She allegedly claimed that she did it because it was a Monday and she didn’t like Mondays. She was sentenced to 25 years jail. The Boomtown Rats released a song about the incident, entitled ‘I Don’t Like Mondays‘.