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Noun: daguerrotype
  1. A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapour
    - daguerreotype

Derived forms: daguerrotypes

Type of: exposure, photo, photograph, pic [informal], piccy [informal], picture

Encyclopedia: Daguerrotype