placard
[plak-ahrd, -erd]
- a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- Armor. placate2.
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- to display placards on or in: The square was placarded by peace marchers.
- to publicize, announce, or advertise by means of placards.
- to post as a placard.
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Origin of placard
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Contemporary Examples
I had a fleeting image of long hair, jeans and a “No Nukes” placard.
Truman’s Grandson & Japan’s A-Bomb Survivors: A Story of ReconciliationClifton Truman Daniel
August 5, 2014
A placard explains how Mexican artists have embraced indigenous culture, including such textiles, over the years.
At one point, an oblivious girl asked whether the placard was a joke.
One woman held up a placard that read “drones fly, children die,” while others called Brennan an “assassin.”
The placard was illustrated with a black-and-white photograph of a crew-cut astronaut wearing a monkey around his neck.
Historical Examples
When I was halfway there I caught sight of him staring at the placard.
So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard, "Engaged."
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
Jed explained why the placard had been prepared and affixed to the door.
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln
A placard slipped from the fingers of one of them and fell on to the floor.
The ChristianHall Caine
This placard was posted up on the palace-gate, and copies all over the kingdom.
placard
- a printed or written notice for public display; poster
- a small plaque or card
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- to post placards on or in
- to publicize or advertise by placards
- to display as a placard
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Word Origin
C15: from Old French plaquart, from plaquier to plate, lay flat; see plaque
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Word Origin and History for placard
n.
late 15c., "formal document authenticated by an affixed seal," from Middle French placquard "official document with a large, flat seal," also "plate of armor," from Old French plaquier "to lay on, cover up, plaster over," from Middle Dutch placken "to patch (a garment), to plaster," related to Middle High German placke "patch, stain," German Placken "spot, patch." Meaning "poster" first recorded 1550s in English; this sense is in Middle French from 15c.
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