cyclostylen.
/ˈsʌɪkləʊstʌɪl/ Name of an apparatus for printing copies of writing. It consists of a pen with a small toothed wheel at the point which cuts minute holes in specially prepared paper tightly stretched over a zinc plate; this paper is then used as a stencil-plate from which copies are printed. Hence cyclostyle apparatus, cyclostyle ink, cyclostyle pen, etc.
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society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [noun] > copying-machine
rolling press1780
copying-press1785
copying-machine1803
letterpress1839
manifold letter writer1840
multigraph1878
chromograph1880
cyclostyle1883
graph1884
Roneo1901
jellygraph1919
Multilith1933
1883 Knowledge 16 Feb. (advt.) The Cyclostyle.
1887 Chicago Advance 19 May 306/1 She..prints it herself with the cyclostyle.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 June 6/1 This is probably the last specimen of a cyclostyle-printed journal which will see the light in Mashonaland.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
cyclostylev.
transitive. To print (copies) by cyclostyle.
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society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [verb (transitive)] > duplicate by machine
graph1880
hectograph1887
chromograph1889
jellygraph1904
cyclostyle1928
1928 Daily Express 5 Mar. 2/3 No candidate can be directly boosted by name in any matter printed, typed, or cyclostyled.
Derivatives
ˈcyclostyled adj.
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society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [adjective] > duplicated by machine
cyclostyled1897
jellygraphed1900
multigraphed1915
multilithed1936
1897 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 2/3 Note the gradual rise from the cyclostyled circular to the printed appeal.
1957 Times 19 Aug. 2/7 The inquirer's first carefree letter to manufacturers will be answered by a flood of shiny prospectuses and cyclostyled price lists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.1883
v.1897