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Webster 1913 Edition
Ferrotype
Fer′ro-type
,Noun.
[L.
ferrum
iron + -type
.] A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; – familiarly called tintype.
Definition 2024
ferrotype
ferrotype
English
Noun
ferrotype (plural ferrotypes)
- an early photographic process in which the image is made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film
Translations
photographic process
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Verb
ferrotype (third-person singular simple present ferrotypes, present participle ferrotyping, simple past and past participle ferrotyped)
- to take a ferrotype photograph
- 1916, Michael Gross, Photo-era, Volume 37
- "He ferrotyped the pictures, and the next morning, bright and early, he mounted each one in an art-folder (bought during a period of prosperity), and then fared forth to sell them to the eager parents of his little subjects."
- 1916, Michael Gross, Photo-era, Volume 37