Daguerʹreotype (4 syl.).
A photographic process. So named from M. Daguerre, who greatly improved it in 1839. (See Talbotype.)
A photographic process. So named from M. Daguerre, who greatly improved it in 1839. (See Talbotype.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.