placarding
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present participleof placard.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
placardnouna paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
Example Sentences
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The 'folly of the Cross,' the placarding of our human weakness, is something more intimate than the mere stripping off of outward paraphernalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall.
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Michel, however, advised a beginning, but simply by placarding Article 68 of the Constitution.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
As the administration of the Rue Pagevin threw obstacles into the way of placarding the decrees and proclamations, Debock advised the workmen bill-stickers to associate themselves.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
O bragging, advertising, placarding, circular-scattering, auctioneering, humbuging world!
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman