Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The facing of walls with thin slabs of marble or the like, or with stucco or plaster.
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Examples
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So today we have people who never went to a lynching, never knocked a black child down the stairs for kicks, never practiced placage with their black maid or committed outright rape, and wouldn't even dream of or approve of such things being loathed by blacks who never experienced any of that but believe today's whites are still capable of this.
The race thing Dymphna 2009
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So today we have people who never went to a lynching, never knocked a black child down the stairs for kicks, never practiced placage with their black maid or committed outright rape, and wouldn't even dream of or approve of such things being loathed by blacks who never experienced any of that but believe today's whites are still capable of this.
Archive 2009-09-01 Dymphna 2009
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Under the placage system, it was acceptable for a white man to take a colored mistress - who was known as a placee - when she was as young as 12.
Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010
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The whole placage system was created by French speaking Catholics in Saint-Domingue (Santo Domingo) and spread from there to Louisiana where non Catholics were not allowed to lived until the Americans purchased the area in 1803.
Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010
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To tell her story, I have to describe placage, a firmly entrenched, deeply racist system in which Catholic women of mixed race became the mistresses of married white Catholic men and a palpable tension always descends over the room.
Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010
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As for frequency, Coca-Cola, Wendy's, and AT & T are far more common in the language than glyceraldehyde, placage, and skyphos; yet the latter can be found in dictionaries usurping the space properly belonging to the former, which fulfill Landau's criteria of number, distribution in time and geography, and diversity of source.
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(some of whom were relatives) and for whom, the placage system was a way of life.
Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010
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The main characters are free Black Creole women who fought against racism and became millionaires through plaçage, or the practice of common-law marriages between white men and Black women, biracial women of color, or Native American women).
'The House That Will Not Stand’: Film In Development On Free Black Women Who Became Millionaires, Fought Racial Oppression In 1800s Monique Jones 2023
reesetee commented on the word placage
Facing a wall with a thin layer of plaster, marble, etc., or a facing of this sort.
December 4, 2008