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fer⋅ro⋅type

   [fer-uh-tahyp]
verb, -typed, -typ⋅ing, noun Photography
–verb (used with object)
1. to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin).
–noun
2. Also called tintype. a positive photograph made on a sensitized sheet of enameled iron or tin.
3. the process of making such photographs.
Origin:
1835–45; ferro- + -type
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fer·ro·type     (fěr'ə-tīp')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A positive photograph made directly on an iron plate varnished with a thin sensitized film. Also called tintype.
  2. The process by which such photographs are made.
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Ferrotype

Fer"ro*type\, n. [L. ferrum iron + -type.] A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.

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