placard

Definitions

1. 1.Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [Obs.] ller.
2. 2.A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
3. 3.(Anc. Armor) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché.
4. 4.Etym: [Cf. Placket.] A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
5. 5.To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
6. 6.To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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