plaque

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

plaque, n. [F. Cf. Plack, and see Placard.].

 Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plaque, n.
1 an ornamental tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., esp. affixed to a building in commemoration.
2 a deposit on teeth where bacteria proliferate.
3 Med. a a patch or eruption of skin etc. as a result of damage. b a fibrous lesion in atherosclerosis.
4 a small badge of rank in an honorary order.

Derivative

plaquette n.

Etymology

F f. Du. plak tablet f. plakken stick

THESAURUS

plaque

arch, award, badge, barrow, boundary stone, brass, brooch, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, honor, inscription, insignia, marker, mausoleum, medal, medallion, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, panel, patch, pillar, pin, plaquette, plate, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, slab, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy