Flong is a term used in relief printing (also called a stereo mould), which refers to an intermediate step in making of a stereo plate typically used in a rotary press though not exclusively. The process was called stereotyping. Invented in Lyon in 1829 by the French printer Claude Genoux, a flong was a papier-mâché mould made with the aid of he...
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• imp. & p. p. of Fling. • (n.) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.
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(from the article `printing`) In making stereotype plates, a flong, or mat, a thin sheet of pasteboard, pliant enough to register an impression and sufficiently heat-resistant to ...
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Flong (? or ?), obsolete
imperfect & past participle of
Fling .
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Flong noun [ Of the same origin as
flawn ,
flan , a metal disk.]
(Stereotyping) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.
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Flong is journalist slang for material that is not urgently topical.
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the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
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