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tintypes

tintypes is the plural of tintype.

tintypes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tintype.

Meaning of tintype

Noun

tintype (plural tintypes)

  1. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
    • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Questions about tintypes

What is tintypes the plural of?
Tintypes is the plural of tintype.

Words near tintypes in the dictionary

  1. tinty
  2. tintype
  3. tintyped
  4. tintyper
  5. tintypers
  6. tintypes
  7. tintyping
  8. tintypist
  9. tintypists
  10. tinware
  11. tinwares

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