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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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"Placard" Quotes from Famous Books

... the trenches by the hundreds prove that the French have not lost the sparkle of wit even under the dreary conditions of trench-fighting. When Italy joined the Allies, some soldiers of a front-line trench hoisted the placard,—"Macaroni mit uns!" Again, when boasting placards of German successes in Galicia were displayed, the French poilus retorted,—"You lie. You have taken ten thousand officers and ten millions of troops." When in a German military prison the keepers boasted ...

— The World Decision • Robert Herrick

... fallen prostrate about the garden did the same, with such demonstrations of wonder and amazement that they would have almost persuaded one that what they pretended so adroitly in jest had happened to them in reality. The duke read the placard with half-shut eyes, and then ran to embrace Don Quixote with open arms, declaring him to be the best knight that had ever been seen in any age. Sancho kept looking about for the Distressed One, to see what her face was like without the beard, and if she was as fair ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... his hotel about midnight, a flaming placard outside a tin-roofed chapel caught his eye and stopped him for a moment. The wording ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... who put on grandfather's spectacles, a pillow under his coat, and a card on his cap, 'Officer of the Landsturm.' The conquerors had enough sense not to interfere with the battalion which was taking Paris; but the pseudo-Landsturm officer was chased into a doorway and got a cuff after his placard ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... current month a vile placard has been published against foreigners, and some of the pupils have been railed at by their acquaintances for being under our instruction. One, on returning from a visit to her friends, told me the bitter and wicked things ...

— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various

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