placards

Noun

placard (plural placards)

1. A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
   • Especially from Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, a distinguished bachelor and auctioneer of those parts, much concerned in the sale of land and cattle: a public character, indeed, whose name was seen on widely distributed placards, and who might reasonably be sorry for those who did not know of him.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to...
2. (obsolete) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
   • All placards or edicts are published in his name.1655, James Howell, “A Survey of the Seventeen Provinces”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey...
3. (obsolete) Permission given by authority; a license.
   • to give a placard to do something
4. (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
5. (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
6. The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.

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