Cliche (klee-SHAY) is a French word commonly used in English to describe something as hackneyed or trite.
Cliché: The individual unit consisting of the design of a single stamp, combined with others to make up the complete printing plate. Individual designs on modern one-piece printing plates are referred to as subjects.
Cliche
An individual stamp image on a printing plate. More specifically, the term applies to a cast block representing a partial plate, usually used in connection with letterpress printing.
Cliche. A single stereotype of a stamp design.
Coils. Stamps sold in rolls for use in stamp vending machines.
2: stamp production term of composing type or the arrangement of cliches so that sheet of stamps can be printed in that arrangement. 3: serie (Fr., It., Sp.); satz (Ger.).
Seta, hongo: (Sp.) mushrooms (thematic).
Seten: (Fr.) se-tenant.
Cliche - The final result of the process of applying a design into metal.
Click Stamp - Postage imprint produced by Pitney Bowes machines.
Club Covers - Covers produced by stamp clubs.
It is not known exactly what went wrong, but the most likely explanation is that a cliché of the 8-skilling printing plate (which consisted of 100 clichés assembled into a 10 x 10 array) was damaged or broken, ...
Substitute clichE - A single clichEcan be inserted into a printing plate in place of one irreparably damaged. Can be identified only if it fails to line up exactly with those around it.
Sur. - Surcharge.
Occasionally, a single cliche is inverted in the plate, resulting in one color producing a tete beche in a multiple piece. That is, the inversion creates a pair of stamps connected together with one stamp right side up and the other upside down.
 See also: Used, Stamp, Cover, Perforation, Plate
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