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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Placard" Quotes from Famous Books

... boy, in spite of poverty and pain; and the day a great gust came blowing fragments of a gay placard and a dusty newspaper down the court to his feet, was the beginning of good fortune for patient Johnny. There was a theatre in the street beyond, and other pictured bits found their way to him; for the frolicsome wind liked to whisk the papers ...

— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott

... to 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 right here on ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... play one morning, and saw a little knot of people gathered around a lamp-post. There was a notice on it—a new order from the chief of police. You pushed into the crowd, and stared at the placard, but you could not read. A woman with a ragged shawl looked down upon you, and said, with a bitter kind of smile, "Rejoice, rejoice, little girl! The chief of police bids you rejoice. There shall be a pretty flag flying from every housetop to-day, ...

— The Promised Land • Mary Antin

... office; but all were beautifully set with flowers and bright silver and napkins in complicated foldings. Pasteboard cards with large black numbers from one to eight stood erect on eight of the tables, and on the ninth an imposing placard bore ...

— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... a big, low-ceiled basement room in a building which was a combination of saloon and tenement house. In one of the front windows of the basement room was hung a gaudy placard: "The Johnny Sullivan ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

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