Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Plaque

Plaque , noun

[F. Compare Plack, and see Placard.]

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.