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/plak/
Translation
plate, plaque, sheet; number plate
Word origin
From Middle Dutch placke ('flat disc, patch, small coin'), taken into Old French with the verb plaquier ('to lay flat, to plate'). English borrowed plaque back from French in the nineteenth century.
- Origin
- Middle Dutch
- Root
- placke
- English cognates
- plaque, placard, plack
Grammar
Examples
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The police took down the car's number plate.
marbre fondateur.
A marble plaque bears the founder's name.
, .
Careful, the hob is still hot.
verglas .
There are patches of black ice on the road.
tôle.
The roof is covered with sheets of corrugated iron.
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