sandwich board

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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 Everything
Rupert Hughes
In appearance the man suggested that in life his place was to support a sandwich-board.
The Lost House
Richard Harding Davis
The sandwich-board man stood in the centre of the road alone looking sharply round him.
The Blue Germ
Martin Swayne
About twenty persons, mostly errand boys, were standing round a sandwich-board man.
The Blue Germ
Martin Swayne
My sandwich-board man has heard nothing of reported addition to our Valhalla.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
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British Dictionary definitions for sandwich board

sandwich board

noun

one of two connected boards, usually bearing advertisements, that are hung over the shoulders in front of and behind a person

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