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Talbot

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Tal·bot  (tôlbt, tl-)
n.
A large white or light-colored hound of an English variety, having long hanging ears and heavy jaws, formerly used for tracking and hunting.
[Middle English, personal name, from Old French.]
Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800-1877.
British inventor and pioneer in photography who made photographic prints on paper treated with silver chloride (1838) and produced the first book illustrated with photographs (1844-1846).
talbot [ˈtɔːlbət]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) (formerly) an ancient breed of large hound, usually white or light-coloured, having pendulous ears and strong powers of scent
[supposed to have been brought to England by the Talbot family]
Talbot [ˈtɒlbət]
n
(Biographies / Talbot, (William Henry) Fox (1800-1877) M, British, SCIENCE: scientist, TECHNOLOGY: inventor) (William Henry) Fox. 1800-77, British scientist, a pioneer of photography, who developed the calotype process
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Noun1.Talbot - English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)Talbot - English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot
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The noble Youth informed us that his name was Lindsay--for particular reasons however I shall conceal it under that of Talbot.
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Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote: -- Sacred To the Memory of John Talbot, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st,
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Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Fred- erick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
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