"letterboard" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "letter + board",
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      "form": "letterboards",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85",
          "text": "So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A signboard for lettering or text."
      ],
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        [
          "signboard",
          "signboard"
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          "lettering",
          "lettering"
        ],
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        {
          "ref": "1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings",
          "text": "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.'",
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        }
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        "A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled."
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          "letter"
        ],
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          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ],
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          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
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            "Economics",
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            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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        "A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation."
      ],
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        "(printing, historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation."
      ],
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
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  "word": "letterboard"
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          "text": "So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A signboard for lettering or text."
      ],
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "communication",
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        "(printing, historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation."
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