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sign-board|ˈsaɪnbɔəd|
[sign n. 6.]
1. A board on which the sign of a shop, inn, or other place of business is painted or otherwise displayed. Also fig.
1632in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 297 All signe boards of Wainscott or carved. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 102/1 A Chandler..Dipping of a Staff or Rod of Candles in Tallow..I have seen often times Painted on Sign-boards, to signifie the dwelling-house of a Chandler. 1793–4Wordsw. Guilt & Sorrow xvi, No swinging sign-board creaked from cottage elm. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 89 Our very sign-boards..give evidence that there has been a Titian in the world. 1844Emerson Misc. (1855) 308 Let him in the county-town..put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 90 Some of the sign-boards of these ancient Roman inns have been disclosed amongst the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. 1934V. Woolf Oliver Goldsmith in Captain's Death Bed (1950) 15 Bodies and hearts are attached to these sign-board faces.
2. Chiefly U.S. A board on a guide-post to direct travellers, etc.
1829A. Royall Mrs. Royall's Pennsylvania II. 38 You scarcely go a mile in Pennsylvania but you see a Preacher—as signboards are called. They point out the road but never travel it. 1883Wheelman I. 298 They found a sign⁓board pointing to Swampscott and Lynn. 1972Straits Times 25 Nov. 18/4 Although there are sign boards on either side of the estate indicating that it is closed to lorry traffic, these lorries continue to rumble through the estate. |