Daguerre

[ duh-gair; French da-ger ]

noun

1. Louis Jacques Man·dé [lwee zhahk mah, n, -, dey], 1789–1851, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype.

Daguerre

/ daɡɛr /

noun

1. DaguerreLouis Jacques Mandé17891851MFrenchTECHNOLOGY: inventorTECHNOLOGY: inventor Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)

Example Sentences

The preposterous, near-farcical offer — one act of surrogacy for another — sounds like the kind of thing only a screenwriter would come up with, or in this case, a playwright, since it’s an adaptation of Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s French stage hit.

From Los Angeles Times

The man behind the technique, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, claimed to have invented photography in France in 1839.

From BBC

Ms Quinn said: "Daguerre developed a way of taking pictures using a polished silvered plate and a camera. This produced a single image printed directly onto a plate with astonishing clarity, named the daguerreotype."

From BBC

Joined by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, officials announced that the fishway would bypass the DaGuerre Point Dam, in Marysville, and allow spring-run chinook salmon, green sturgeon, steelhead, and lamprey to access 10 to 12 miles of spawning habitat upstream.

From Los Angeles Times

“The fishway at DaGuerre Point will be an unprecedented action to restore habitat and contribute to the recovery of threatened species by providing unobstructed passage to habitat that’s been incredibly challenging for them to access,” said Willie Whittlesey, general manager of the Yuba Water Agency.

From Los Angeles Times