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3. A written or printed paper or bill posted up in a public place; a poster. "The flaring posters and placards of many hues had lost their novelty."-London Daily Telegraph. *4. A stomacher frequently adorned with jewels, worn both by men and women. "The two placardes of the same curiously graven and conningly costed."- Hall: Henry IV., fol. 12. *5. An extra plate upon the lower portion of the breastplate or backplate. plăc-ard, pla-card', v. t. [PLACARD.] 1. To post placards or bills on; to cover with placards. "Paris is, at the present moment, placarded with bills of every hue."-London Daily Chronicle. 2. To announce or give notice of by placards or posters. plăc-āte, v . t. [ Lat.placatus , pa. par. of placo =to appease.] To appease, to pacify, to conciliate. "Strephon speaks of trying to placate the Lord Chan Daily Telegraph. Mil.: The officer or man on the flank of a line of cell or by praying songs of Arcadie in court."-London IMG:content-1152.png:[blocks in formation] Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iv., ch. xii.