daguerreotype

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/, /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)əˌtaɪp/

daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)

1. 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; such a photograph.
2. The process of making such photographs.
3. (obsolete, figurative) A faithful or exact representation or description.

• daguerreotyper
• daguerreotypy

daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
2. (transitive, obsolete, figurative) To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 20:

     He scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerrotype my appearance indellibly ^[sic] and faithfully upon his mind.