What is "plaques"

Usage examples of "plaques".

For some exorcistic ceremonies bone aprons were worn, consisting of short plaques of human bone carved with small figures and connected in a criss-cross pattern by strings of round beads also made of human bone.

It consisted partly of actual plaques and partly of metal leaves only millimeters thick.

So we must make a choice: either the Incas had received visitors from Africa who drew elephants next to the pyramids for them or these gold plaques are more than 14,000 years old (12,000 plus 2,000).

In Egypt the colossal structures were burial places, in the other hemisphere simply grandiose edifices on the upper platforms of which temples were built The gold plaques do not exhibit a single flattened surface at the summit with a temple on it!

I know perfectly well that there will be no thunderous applause for me, but I still say that the characters on these metal plaques found deep under the earth will prove to be the oldest writing in the world!

There was an untidy pile of flecked hundred‑mille plaques in front of him.

He had smiled once or twice across the table, and there was something pointed in the way he duplicated Bond's movements, placing his two modest plaques of ten mille exactly opposite Bond's larger ones.

There was an untidy pile of flecked hundred-mille plaques in front of him.

Un banco de cinq cent mille,' and as the Greek at Number 1 tapped the table in front of his fat pile of hundred-mille plaques, 'Le banco est fait.

His helmet is plumed and his armour partly made of small plaques sewn together.

Paint was also applied to images and clay plaques, to buildings in vertical and horizontal stripes, to architectural features like window surrounds and on wooden pillars, beams and brackets and on ceilings inside buildings.

The tsha-tshas were normally round or oval plaques, sometimes with a flat base and a pointed arch at the top, and the image and its surrounding features in relief.

Very similar stamped plaques were also common in Burma, Thailand and Java at the time that Buddhism was entering Tibet and it is surprising that no eastern Indian examples have been reported or collected from the country.

Another type of special headgear consisted of a crown of five plaques, each of which represents one of the five Dhyani Buddhas.

Rings, bracelets, earrings, pendants, buckles, seals, bowls, cups, plaques, clouds, mountains, knives, axes, men, women, dragons, horses, fish, pigs, birds, the immortal lotus.