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Tintype
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tintype
tintype
English
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A copy of a tintype of Corporal Nailer of the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The original photograph was made between 1861 and 1865.
Noun
tintype (plural tintypes)
- An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 993:
- They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, ****, they love em chavalitos.
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