blad

American  

[blad] / blæd /

noun

Advertising Informal.

• blads
  plural

1. a flier or other promotional material distributed by a company to sell a product.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blads
  plural

Etymology

Origin of blad

1930–35; perhaps bl(urb) + ad ¹

Example Sentences

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blad blads

Friday first's the day appointed By the Right Worshipful anointed, To hold our grand procession; To get a blad o' Johnie's morals, And taste a swatch o' Manson's barrels I' the way of our profession.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Blad, blad, n. a fragment of anything, a good lump.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

De prijs is zeer matig voor zulk cen blad; drie dollars per jaar.

From Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

He hesitated one second, then said in the most mournful of voices, "Yes, me know, me feel vellee blad, but Lee, he tellee me go—he no likee mason-man."

From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

"Oh, yes; yes, indeed, papa!" they responded, baby Ned adding, "Oh, me so blad to det home adain."

From Elsie at Viamede by Martha Finley

As a great preacher, "or he had done with his sermon he was so active and vigorous that he was like to ding the pulpit in blads and fly out of it."

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

An’ noo the winter winds complain; Cauld lies the glaur in ilka lane; On draigled hizzie, tautit wean An’ drucken lads, In the mirk nicht, the winter rain Dribbles an’ blads.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ere he had finished his sermon “he was like to ding the pulpit to blads and fly out of it.”

From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang