sandwich board
noun
two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
Origin of sandwich board
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Examples from the Web for sandwich board
Historical Examples of sandwich board
His expansive shirt-bosom might as well have been a sandwich-board.
We Can't Have EverythingRupert Hughes
In appearance the man suggested that in life his place was to support a sandwich-board.
The Lost HouseRichard Harding Davis
The sandwich-board man stood in the centre of the road alone looking sharply round him.
The Blue GermMartin Swayne
About twenty persons, mostly errand boys, were standing round a sandwich-board man.
The Blue GermMartin Swayne
My sandwich-board man has heard nothing of reported addition to our Valhalla.
sandwich board
noun
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