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noun

Placard n.

A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. (Obs.) "All placards or edicts are published in his name."

Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. (Obs.)

A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

(Anc. Armor) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

verb

Placard v. t. (past & past part. placarded; pres. part. placarding)

To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.

To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

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Etymology of 'Placard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Placard" Quotes from Famous Books

... such Elizabethan memories may receive a check or a chill when the traveller comes, as he sometimes does, to the outskirts of one of these strange hamlets of new frame-houses, and is confronted with a placard inscribed in enormous letters, 'Watch Us Grow.' He can always imagine that he sees the timbers swelling before his eyes like pumpkins in some super-tropical summer. But he may have formed the conviction that no such proclamation could be found outside Shakespeare's town. And indeed there is ...

— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton

... little room in the Admiralty, going to consult a Blue book, stopped for a moment by the window and observed the placard tied round the lamp-post. ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... pointed beard and his ruffles of lace, leaned picturesquely back in his chair, which rested against the wall. He was smoking a very black briar-root pipe, and perhaps his Majesty enjoyed the weed all the more that there was just above his head, tacked to the wall, a large placard containing the words, "No smoking allowed in this room, or in any other part of ...

— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell

... win with. Square issues, square dealing, square men! We'll placard every fence and barn door in the district. A woodcut will cost next to nothing, and I'll run the posters off ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... to be read on a large placard in front of the Green Box, which offered the crowd the following narrative ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

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