flong

/flɒŋ/

Etymology

From French flan.

flong means A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

flong is pronounced /flɒŋ/.

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.”