Word Definition

Placard

  1. To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.
  2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.
  3. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
  4. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
  5. An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.
  6. A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
  7. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.