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Word entry · 6 letters

plaque

Best crossword clue

"Commemorative plate"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /plæk/Part of speech nounSorted aelpquStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a memorial made of brass

Word origin

Unadapted borrowing from French plaque (“plate, sheet (of metal); slab (of marble); bacteria on teeth”), from French plaquer, Middle French plaquer (“to plate”), from Middle Dutch placken (“to patch, beat metal into a thin plate”), from placke (“disk, patch, stain”), from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”).

Used in a sentence

  • blown plaques
  • aconcussion plaques
  • amyloid plaque

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