blue plaque
blue plaque — noun
1. a round blue marker on a UK building that records where a well-known person once
a round blue marker on a UK building that records where a well-known person once stayed or had their workplace
A blue plaque on the house tells visitors the poet Gabriela once lived there.
blue plaque on [building] tells visitors [person] lived there
Sven took photographs of every blue plaque he passed while walking through London.
The old building had a blue plaque, so Eshe knew a famous person lived there.
Local historians asked the council to put up a blue plaque for the scientist Kabir.
Tourists stopped to look at the blue plaque outside the author's former home.
- commemorative plaque
a more general term for any plaque that honours a person or event; 'blue plaque' specifically refers to the British scheme with a distinctive blue colour
文法句型
blue plaque on [building] for [person]
put up / unveil a blue plaque
用法筆記
Commonly associated with London's English Heritage scheme, though the phrase is also used for similar commemorative plaques in other UK cities.