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The word "plaque" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a flat, typically metal, surface, especially one that is inscribed or decorated with a message, dedication, or design. For example, "The 30th anniversary of the library was celebrated with a plaque honoring the building's founders."
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plaque
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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.
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Did you see something that looks like a fragile plaque for a heart attack?
On the following day a permanent commemoration of poem and poet, a slate plaque carved by the sculptor Martin Jennings, will be unveiled at King's Cross station in London.
Kenneth A. Lewis, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, told the USGBC magazine: "We want to open it up and have the LEED plaque on the door".
The younger driver's parents have been given permission to erect a small memorial plaque at the spot.
For now, the doors are wide open without the plaque and without a clear solution to the alternative energy demands of the tower.
It helps the development of atherosclerotic plaque, so you're going to have a heart attack; it helps disable brain cells, so you've got a neurodegenerative disease now; it helps a nascent cancer cell grow and metastasise".
So it was with some chagrin that we learned that English Heritage has turned Burgess down for a blue plaque on the house in Chiswick, west London, where he lived in the 60s.
Seventy years later, Zdenka sits beside the window of a mansion block flat overlooking Hyde Park in London; by an extraordinary twist, a plaque on the building identifies it as the location where a plot was hatched by the exiled Czech underground to assassinate the Third Reich's emissary to Prague, Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
Some opt for simple clean-ups, for plaque and swollen gums, some have their ragged edges filed, some have plastic bonding to cover blemishes, some have gum-shield-style "invisible" braces with names such as Invisalign, some have porcelain veneers fused to their teeth.
This autumn Slipstream, an astonishing 70m-long, 77-tonne work by the acclaimed sculptor Richard Wilson, will be installed in Heathrow's Terminal 2. The sculpture is being constructed by a Hull company, CSI Fabrication, and Wilson has insisted that a plaque bearing the legend "made in Hull" is fixed to the work, which will be viewed by more than 20 million people a year.
Orwell wrote: "Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.
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