The word "signboards" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a board with words that informs people and directs their attention to something. Example: The streets of the city were filled with colorful signboards in various languages.
Among the functions they originally served were as predellas (the facings to altar-step risers); devotional and ceremonial icons; portable, folding diptych and triptych altarpieces; shop and tavern signboards; mummy cases; and panel decorations of carriages, musical instruments, and cassoni.
The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used signs for advertising purposes, as did the Romans, who also, in effect, created signboards by whitewashing convenient sections of walls for suitable inscriptions.
In Europe, after the invention of printing by movable type, it was not long before printed handbills, flyers, broadsheets, and posters were affixed to walls and fences and even signboards carried by people, by which they advertised an assortment of goods and services, public executions, sailings and dockings, and the like.
As the befuddled underdog Schweik, Pallenberg created the perfect foil for Piscator's multimedia "epic theatre" event, which used cutout cartoon characters, animated film, treadmills, signboards, and abstract lighting to condemn bureaucratic manipulation and callousness.
Often signboards were used to highlight key words.
Precisely because it delivers a gleam that the drabber signboards can't and brings to commercial blandishment an aura of other worlds.
Newly painted signboards and posters call for "death to the US imperialists" and urge the people to fight with "arms, not words".
Discussing a century of buses with Sam Mullins, Director of the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, he shows me the first standard London bus, built in 1912, complete with the destination signboards for route 11 from Liverpool Street to Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush.
It is believed that 140,000 Republicans killed by Nationalist death squads remain unidentified in mass graves on the country's quieter roadsides and mountain ravines So perhaps it is appropriate that there are no explanatory signboards (although, apparently, these will be installed soon) to indicate where this trail starts, let alone a visitors' centre or car park.
Some among us (I am one of them) can recall a time when the baseball and the players were the lone attractions, barring a few outfield signboards.
In modest eateries with Bengali signboards, men bent over plates of rice and fish.
