carbon print

noun

an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate

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Meanings

nouncarbon print (plural carbon prints)

plural carbon prints

  1. artsan early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate

    It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
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