Placard Definition

plăkärd, -ərd
placards
noun
placards
A notice for display in a public place; poster.
Webster's New World
A small card or plaque.
Webster's New World

(historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary
verb
placards
To set up placards.
Webster's New World
To advertise or give notice of by means of placards.
Webster's New World
To place placards on or in.
Webster's New World
To display as a placard.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Placard

Noun

Singular:
placard
Plural:
placards

Origin of Placard

  • Middle English official document from Old French from plaquier to plaster, piece together from Middle Dutch placken to patch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English placquert, 'official document,' from Middle French placquier, 'to plate'. Cognate of 'plaque' (1560)

    From Wiktionary

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