plackart

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A form of placard — A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.

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nounplackart (plural plackarts)

plural plackarts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of placard (“extra plate on the lower part of a breastplate (armor)”).

    Most plackarts also supported a fauld, made of a various number of waist-lames, […]

    2012, Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 81
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    High plackarts with stepped or cusped borders are a unique feature of Spanish armour in the 1470s ...

    2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 499

    The plates and plackarts snapped closely together and the straps binding them were tied. Then Fletcher brought him his pauldrons, upper cannons, ...

    2015, Anna Thayer, The Broken Blade: Every man has a destiny. His is to betray, Lion Fiction, →ISBN
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APA

plackart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plackart

MLA

“plackart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plackart. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plackart,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plackart.

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