clichéyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[cliché 词源字典]
cliché: [19] Originally, French clicher meant literally ‘stereotype’ – that is, ‘print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printing surface’. The word was supposedly imitative of the sound made when the mould was dropped into the molten type metal. Hence a word or phrase that was cliché – had literally been repeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate – had become hackneyed.
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ink (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"to mark or stain in ink," 1560s, from ink (n.). Meaning "to cover (a printing plate, etc.) with ink" is from 1727. Related: Inked; inking.
acrographyyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"The art of incising a design onto a surface from which a cast is made, converting the incised lines into a relief design on a metal printing plate", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in London Catalogue Books. From acro- + -graphy, apparently with reference to the image being in relief.