"physiognotrace" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: physiognotraces [plural]
Etymology: From physiognomy and trace. Head templates: {{en-noun}} physiognotrace (plural physiognotraces)
  1. (historical) A device to facilitate the production of faithful profiles of human faces. Wikipedia link: physiognotrace Tags: historical Related terms: camera obscura, pantograph
    Sense id: en-physiognotrace-en-noun-5LOTnOJ5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

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          "ref": "2004, Lisa Gitelman with Geoffrey B. Pingree, New Media, 1740-1915, page 36:",
          "text": "Public enthusiasm for the physiognotrace turned in part upon the machine's ease, speed, and low expense.",
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          "ref": "2010, Samuel Otter, Philadelphia stories: America's literature of race and freedom, page 91:",
          "text": "At the end of the “Long Room” of the old State House, operating the physiognotrace soon after it had been installed and cutting out the profiles that the machine etched with its steel point, was Moses Williams, an African American",
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        "(historical) A device to facilitate the production of faithful profiles of human faces."
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