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tintype
[ tin-tahyp ]
noun
- Photography. ferrotype ( def 2 ).
- not on your tintype, Slang. absolutely not:
Ask her again? Not on your tintype!
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Julius had learned a lot of things from that mate on the bark, and he tried 'em all on that tintype man.
So I put on my best outfit and had a tintype struck off under that tent on the square and sent it to him.
The voice of the tintype was but one of the many callings that had wooed him upon so many roads.
But Mrs. Waterman declared the tintype to be "as near like them as two peas," and we accepted her verdict.
It is indeed a tintype of the consumptive heroine, with every group entire, and taken at full length.
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