English Explanatory Dictionary

polyfoto

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of a series of 48 photographs (similar to photo booth photos) taken using a Polyfoto camera, which used a single glass plate negative, the operator turning a handle on the side to take each exposure and also move the plate.
verb
  1. To take such a series of photographs.

Word forms

polyfoto polyfotos polyfotoing polyfotoed

Etymology

Originally Polyfoto (“a commercial venture”), from poly- and photo.

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