placard
Plural: placards
Noun
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
- A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
- Permission given by authority; a license.
- An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
- A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
- The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.
Verb
Verb Forms: placarded, placarding, placards
- To publicize or announce using posters or signs.
- post in a public place
- publicize or announce by placards
- To affix a placard to.
- To announce with placards.
Examples
- She decided to PLACARD her victory by sharing her final Scrabble score on social media.
- to placard a sale
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English placard (“official document”), from Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from the Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque + -ard.
Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (plakat, “a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.
Scrabble Score: 12
placard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplacard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
placard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary