What is "plaque"

Usage examples of "plaque".

We walked inside to a hallway, and instead of being confronted with grand family tablets proclaiming the Hall of Glory and Beautitude, we saw one simple plaque on the wall.

Among other compliments and marks of homage the old man was presented with a golden plaque, on one side of which Sicard, who stood revealed as a master of the burin, had engraved his portrait with rare fidelity.

We believe that homocysteine causes small openings between the endothelial cells that make up the inner lining of your arteries, leading to deterioration of the arterial wall, buildup of plaque, and inflammation.

Through the overgrowth of roses, she could barely make out the enamel plaque beside the door: AVALON COTTAGE.

And have they a highly popular panopticon there containing nothing but trees to which small plaques are fastened bearing the names of the most famous heroes, criminals, and lovers?

Bill from the complex plasterwork of the ceiling plaque in the centre of their bedroom.

Luzhin meanwhile fixed his motionless and expressionless gaze on an eggshell-white plaque with a black inscription, Veritas, but Valentinov immediately swept him farther and lowered him into an armchair of the club variety that was even more tenacious and quaggy than the car seat.

An engraved brass plaque at each entrance described how the former ice-mine tunnel had been lovingly repurposed by the citizenry.

Together, and in the presence of Weamish, we packed the crates, scaled them, affixed bands and plaques.

A municipal signpost incongruously vegetated behind the tail of the left lion, the crossed plaques indicating that this was the corner of Wise Road and Old Creek Road.

Captain Sparling, as you can see from that plaque on my overloaded desk.

Plaques and framed certificates and pictures of Tripley with various VIPs hung everywhere.

In its sepia light, under warpaint of verdigris and climbing plants, plaques pointing to the mess and the heads and boiler rooms could still be read.

Many alcoves opened off that huge chamber, with its vaulted ceiling that was painted bright blue, and the walls that were paneled with ebonized wood inlaid with Amboina in a heavily gilded floral pattern, the center panels containing olive-colored Wedgwood plaques.

This is a modification of an existing, patented apoptotic organism originally designed to destroy neural plaque.