ambrotype means An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
AMBROTYPE — [Noun] An early photographic process that produces a positive image on a sheet of glass by using a dark backing to make the underexposed negative appear positive. From the Ancient Greek ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, "immortal, imperishable") and τύπος (túpos, "impression, type"). Unlike a daguerreotype, with its spectral, mercury-fumed shimmer on silvered copper, or a tintype, that sturdy, pocketable sliver of enameled iron, the ambrotype is a fragile fiction of light and shadow. It is the cool, smooth plane of glass against the fingertips; the faint visage that emerges only when shadow fills the frame; the hairline crack threatening to dissolve a smile into a puzzle of shards—a portrait made permanent not in silver, but in the precise negation of light.
noun
- An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background.