letterboard
English
Etymology
letter + board
Noun
letterboard (plural letterboards)
- A signboard for lettering or text.
- 1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85
- So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.
- 1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85
- A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- One of the patients, Leonard L., when he heard of L-DOPA, rapped on his letterboard with mixed enthusiasm and irony, 'Dopamine is Resurrectamine. Cotzias is the Chemical Messiah.'
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- (printing, historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.