Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To produce (a photographic image) on the surface of sensitized paper according to the talbotype method. See talbotype, n.
  • noun A photographic process invented by an Englishman, W. H. Fox Talbot, in which paper prepared in a particular manner is used instead of the silver plates of Daguerre: same as calotype.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Photog.) Same as calotype.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.

Etymologies

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Talbot +‎ type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.

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