Placage

Fr.. in fortification, a kind of revetement, which is made of thick plastic earth, laid along the talus of such parapets as have no mason-work, and which is covered with turf. | PLACARD, | | - | | PLACART, | or, as it is in the original Dutch language Placaat , a term used abroad for a proclamation, edict, . put up in all public places, by government authority; whereby their subjects are ordered to do, or forbear, something expre ed therein. See Manifesto .