flong

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Pronunciation

/flɒŋ/ (UK)

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/flɒŋ/ (UK) · /flɔŋ/ · /flɑŋ/

Definition of flong

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.

“A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.”
“Because it was made from malleable material, a flong was a convenient intermediary for turning a flat page of type into the semi-cylindrical shape required by the huge newspaper presses of the twentieth century, whose printing surface was a spinning drum.”

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noun

A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.

“A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.”
“Because it was made from malleable material, a flong was a convenient intermediary for turning a flat page of type into the semi-cylindrical shape required by the huge newspaper presses of the twentieth century, whose printing surface was a spinning drum.”

verb

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From French flan.

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