Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of producing photographic pictures by the method introduced by Daguerre.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or technique of producing
daguerreotypes .
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Examples
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He strove to keep the wolf from the door by giving lessons in painting and by practising the new art of daguerreotypy, and, in the mean time, he employed every spare moment in improving and still further simplifying his invention.
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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The ill omen does not appear to have been feared for the young as well as for the old, even in provincial localities, when for the first time portraiture by daguerreotypy or more recently by photography was introduced.
Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873
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He strove to keep the wolf from the door by giving lessons in painting and by practising the new art of daguerreotypy, and, in the mean time, he employed every spare moment in improving and still further simplifying his invention.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831
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