Do we say plaque or plack

plaque 23 occurrences

" In the wide flare of the swinging lamp, revealing Mrs. Scogin's parlor of chromo, china plaque, and crayon enlargement, sofa, whatnot, and wax bouquet embalmed under glass, Mrs. Burkhardt stood for a moment, blowing into her cupped hands, unwinding herself of shawl, something Niobian in her gesture.

" A monument to the memory of the murdered hostages is to be erected in the village market-place, and a plaque has been let into the wall of the farm where the old men and the women passed their first night of agony.

When he awakened the moon was shining, the pool sparkled like a silver plaque crusted with diamonds, and two nightingales were singing in the branches over his head.

The bald head on the right door is a portrait of Ghiberti; that of the old man on the left is his father, who helped him to polish the original competition plaque.

Donatello's influence on the boy held long enough for him to make the low relief of the Madonna, much in his style, which is now preserved in the Casa Buonarroti, while the plaque of the battle of the Centaurs and Lapithae which is also there shows Bertoldo's influence.

We'd run up Mount Rubidoux, that has a grand, curlycue sort of road to the top, where there's one of the old Mission bells, and a cross, and a plaque in memory of the best Father of 'em all, Juniperra Serra.

From G. Ecke: Frühe chinesische Bronzen aus der Sammlung Oskar Trautmann, Peking 1939, plate 3. 3 Bronze plaque representing two horses fighting each other.

[Illustration: 3 Bronze plaque representing two horses fighting each other.

PHOTOGRAPHIE, f., reproduction d'une image sur une plaque à l'aide d'une chambre noire.

The Cellini plaque.

ROBERTS, KENNETH L. Victims of the plaque.

Linoleum plaque-making; and Linoleum block printing on cloth, C-6.

Linoleum plaque-making.

SMITH, WILLIAM JAY. Elegy and Plaque for Forest Park.

The Cellini plaque.

ROBERTS, KENNETH L. Victims of the plaque.

Linoleum plaque-making; and Linoleum block printing on cloth, C-6.

Linoleum plaque-making.

SMITH, WILLIAM JAY. Elegy and Plaque for Forest Park.

They saluted me politely this time, a tribute I imagine to my having kept my temper under great provocation to lose it, went out of the gate, stood whispering together a few minutes, and gazing back at the house, as if afraid they would forget it, looked up at the plaque on the gate-post, made a note, mounted their wheels, and sprinted down the hill, still in earnest conversation.

Pendant ce temps elles ont une plaque de fer convexe, qui est posée sur un trépied et échauffée en dessous par un feu doux.

long, made during the reign of Louis XV., but quite in the Marie Antoinette style, the legs tapering and fluted, the frieze having in the centre a plaque of bronze doré, the subject being a group of cupids, representing the triumph of Poetry, and on each side a scroll with a head and foliage (the only ornament characteristic of Louis Quinze style) connecting leg and frieze.

And cleanse and decorate, and lastly fit A fair blue plaque above the study casement, Saying, "Here lived a while and wove his spell, Eusebius Binks the bard, the unforgotten; The house is mentioned in his 'Lines to Hell,' Also the agents, Messrs. Azazel,

plack 5 occurrences

This is not the way to make her plack a bawbee, and Lord M , a little miffed in turn, sends the whole correspondence to me to know whether Mrs. G will accept the £50 or not Now, hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour, I have got the good-humoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind, and I take on myself the task of making her peace with Lord M .

Tho' he no worth a plack is, His ain coat on his back is; And nane can say that black is The white o' Johnnie's e'e [Footnote 6: Plack = a small copper coin, worth about one-third of a penny.] He wears a blue bonnet, Blue bonnet, blue bonnet, He wears a blue bonnet, And a dimple in his chin O weel

Tho' he no worth a plack is, His ain coat on his back is; And nane can say that black is The white o' Johnnie's e'e [Footnote 6: Plack = a small copper coin, worth about one-third of a penny.] He wears a blue bonnet, Blue bonnet, blue bonnet, He wears a blue bonnet, And a dimple in his chin O weel

"Mossié, Mossié," I said, addressing the prisoner, who seemed to think I said Moiselet, "Mossié Fine Hapit, (not knowing his name, I so designated him, because his coat was the colour of flesh,) sacrement, ter teufle, no tongue to me; yer François, I miseraple, I trink vine; faut trink for gelt, plack vine.

The lassie we love and the friend we can trust, And a bumper to wash from our spirits the rust; Then let gear-scraping carls make o' life catch-the-plack, And strod to the de'il wi' the trash on their back.

Do we say   plaque   or  plack