tintype
/ˈtɪnˌtaɪp/
noun
- A photograph made on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark enamel, popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- She found her great-grandmother's tintype in an old family album.
- Tintypes were once a common way for families to have affordable portraits made.
- The antique shop had a tintype of a Civil War soldier in uniform.
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