posteredadj.
/ˈpəʊstəd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstərd/ Depicted or described on posters; covered with posters.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [adjective] > billed or posted
posted1648
placarded1854
screened1867
billed1895
postered1916
1916 S. Kaye-Smith Sussex Gorse iii. 173 Rye electors were confronted with the postered virtues and vices of Captain Mackinnon (Radical) and Colonel MacDonald (Conservative).
1927 Scots Observer 7 May 9/2 The real blemishes of Glasgow are raw and postered gable-ends, untended waste grounds, [etc.].
a1967 H. Witherford Waters, indeed, are to Palate Bitter in V. O'Sullivan Anthol. 20th Cent. N.Z. Poetry (1987) 147 And slowly, slowly, our life flows To the proud blaring of the Tramways Band By postered walls of corrugated iron And past abominable bungalows.
1985 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 13 574 Aggressively marketed by the Sunkist growers' cooperative, oranges and their vividly postered crates became major emissaries of the Southern California dream.
1995 Afr. Affairs 94 377 The homeland areas near Pietersburg were richly postered but none of the placards featured the ANC's local candidate for premier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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