Definitions for plaques

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plaques plaque

Spelling: [plak]

IPA: /plæk/

Plaques is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in plaques (aelpqsu).

Definitions for plaques

noun

1. a thin, flat plate or tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., intended for ornament, as on a wall, or set in a piece of furniture.
2. an inscribed commemorative tablet, usually of metal placed on a building, monument, or the like.
3. a platelike brooch or ornament, especially one worn as the badge of an honorary order.
4. Anatomy, Pathology. a flat, often raised, patch on the skin or other organ, as on the inner lining of arterial walls in atherosclerosis.
5. Dentistry. a soft, sticky, whitish matlike film attached to tooth surfaces, formed largely by the growth of bacteria that colonize the teeth.
6. Bacteriology. a cleared region in a bacterial culture, resulting from lysis of bacteria by bacteriophages.

Origin of plaques

1840-50; French, noun derivative of plaquer to plate Middle Dutch placken to patch; cf. placket

Examples for plaques

This plaque has furnished the simple yet sufficient title for this volume.

After the 1994 election, the seven new Republican congresswomen presented Rush Limbaugh with a plaque saying, “Rush Was Right.”

Roger took the plaque and spread out the roll of parchment attached.

The plaque honoring “la Nueve” speaks to how memory is often overlaid by the hedging of history.

"Then there is truth in this plaque," said the earl, showing some trace of excitement.

This plaque was stolen, I believe, while the other riches were gifts from King Montezuma.

Yes, gentles and people, I commend this plaque to your careful attention.

There was not even a book for her to replace, or a plaque to tuck away.

The Queen met BBC stalwarts including David Dimbleby and Sir Bruce Forsyth, before unveiling a plaque marking the occasion.

Carroll hopes to erect a plaque in her former home and at the hotel where she also lived.