flong

A limited number of duplicate casts could be made from one flong.

The native people of San Serriffe are known as the Flong.

In 1941, the mill was switched to the manufacture of flong for the Daily Express newspaper.

A further improvement to the technique was made in 1893, when the dry flong replaced the wet flong.

And conceptual art group Flong has created a robotic art installation featuring an unsettling eye that really does follow you across a room - and blinks!

The Flong were the indigenous population in British newspaper The Guardian's 1977 April fool story on the fictional islands of San Serriffe.

"Dwile" is a knitted floor cloth, from the Dutch dweil, meaning "mop", and "flonk" is probably a corruption of flong, an old past tense of fling.

In a newspaper press, a papier-mâché mixture (flong) was used to make a mould of the entire forme of type, then dried and bent, and a curved metal plate cast against it.

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.

Invented in Lyon in 1829 by the French printer Claude Genoux, a flong was a papier-mâché mould made with the aid of heat and pressure of a set forme of type.

In this process, called stereotyping, the entire forme is pressed into a fine matrix such as plaster of Paris or papier mâché called a flong to create a positive, from which the stereotype forme was cast of type metal.

In printing, a stereotype, also known as a cliché, stereoplate or simply a stereo, was originally a "solid plate of type-metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould (called a flong) taken from the surface of a forme of type" used for printing instead of the original.