tintype
English
Etymology
tin + type
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪntaɪp/
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, hell, they love em chavalitos.
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Derived terms
- not on your tintype
Verb
tintype (third-person singular simple present tintypes, present participle tintyping, simple past and past participle tintyped)
- (transitive) To produce a tintype image of.