tintype
verbEtymology From tin + type.
1
To produce a tintype image of.
tintype
noun/ˈtɪntaɪp/
Etymology From tin + type.
1
An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
- 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:
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- They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 885:
- Derived terms
- not on your tintype, tintyper, tintypist