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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In photography, a ferrotype.
  • noun A glass negative mounted on black and used as a positive.
  • noun A black print.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Photog.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of melainotype.

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