daguerreotyped

Variant of daguerreotype

daguerreotype definition

☆ da·guerreo·type (də ger′ō tīp′, -ē ō-)

noun

  1. a photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal
  2. this method

Etymology: after Louis J. M. Daguerre (1789-1851), Fr painter who developed the method

transitive verb daguerreotyped -·typed′, daguerreotyping -·typ′·ing

to photograph by this method

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