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Definition of Ambrotype
1. n. A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
Definition of Ambrotype
1. Noun. an early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambrotype
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ambrotype
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrotype
Literary usage of Ambrotype
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Heliochromy: Or, The Production of Pictures, by Means of Light by Levi L Hill (1856)
"My ambrotype Process—My Photographic Process—My Instantaneous Printing Process—My
Transparency Process—My ... THE ambrotype process here detailed is my own. ..."
2. Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's by George Whitefield Samson (1876)
"Dip it when dry in the bath of nitrate of silver. After the impression has been
taken from the ambrotype, fix or "tone" the picture by immersion in a bath ..."
3. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark V-1 of 3 by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"The ambrotype which appears in the Charles G. Clarke volume, and in the Jacob
volume, cited in the text and in the I 902 Hosmer edition of the Gaas journal ..."
4. Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: 1852-1872, Cananadaigua, N.Y. by Caroline Cowles Richards (1908)
"Our Sunday School class went to Mr. Finley's to-day and had a group ambrotype
taken for our teacher, Miss Annie Pierce; Susie Daggett, Clara Willson, ..."
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