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Webster 1913 Edition


Tintype

Tin′typeˊ

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Noun.
Same as
Ferrotype
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Definition 2024


tintype

tintype

English

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)

  1. 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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