sign-board

One of the lovely things about New Orleans is that the traditional hand-painted sign and hanging sign-board has been the fashion for centuries now and is still going strong.

Hand-Painted Signs James Gurney 2009

Pot-aux-Roses, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its sign-board, a post (poteau) painted rose-color.

Les Miserables 2008

It made them feel that they were doing an educated sort of thing to travel through a country whose commonest advertisements were in idiomatic French, and Miss Winchelsea made unpatriotic comparisons because there were weedy little sign-board advertisements by the rail side instead of the broad hoardings that deface the landscape in our land.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Meanwhile two men were tugging at each oar, and Barnes himself steering with the sign-board; and the head of the boat was kept against the wind and the billows from our breakwater.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

But the heralds said that it looked a mere sign-board, without a good motto under it; and the motto must have my name in it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

It was such an exaggerated portrait as a rustic genius might have executed upon a sign-board.

Wylder's Hand 2003

At the shop next door (which had painted on its sign-board a negro smoking a cigar) I bought (likewise out of a desire to imitate no one) some Turkish tobacco, a Stamboul hookah, and two pipes.

Youth 2003

I will not accept as the crown of my desires a block of buildings with tenements for the poor on a lease of a thousand years, and perhaps with a sign-board of a dentist hanging out.

Notes from Underground 2003

Our aristocracy, our old, real, genuine aristocracy, are full of the quaintest eccentricities, eccentricities inherited for centuries, eccentricities which they are prouder of than they are of their titles, and that sign-board there is one of them.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I caught him in the shop the very next day, worrying over a fine piece of sign-board sized ash plywood with a router, grooving intersecting lines in it to form a grid pattern.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002