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Is there a particular word for nouns (or other words, I guess) that used to be self-descriptive but have since evolved? For instance, the word "blueprint" was coined because the diagrams were made through cyanotype process and were indeed blue prints. Now, they're made on a computer and as far as I know are no longer blue.
I can't imagine there's NOT a word for this, but I haven't been able to come up with the right combination of terms for google to spit it out. Thanks!
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