0 a large piece of card, paper, etc. with a message written or printed on it, often carried in public places by people who are complaining about something:
1 a notice or sign hung in a public place or carried by people:
Another classmate heard this and quickly hung the placard on her neck.
In practical terms, what the committee wanted was a monument that looked and functioned more like a placard than a work of fine art.
We are supported by the presence of others and by special wayfinding devices: maps, street numbers, route signs, bus placards.
This was followed by other placards showing potted trees and a plastic fountain ('water feature') and giving prices.
Toward dialect speaking students the means of punishment have been to hang the placard, hit heads, issue fines, and use other degrees of punishment.
The evidence of the broadsheets and the placards corroborate that the incidents at the theatre were surrounded in the streets by expressions of strident nationalism and xenophobia.
Glass showcases, window displays, advertising leaflets, store front placards, billboards, electric signs and background musical enticements were some of the strategies used better to promote events and market merchandise.
These are words which should be shouted from the rooftops, written on placards and paraded through the streets.