In British usage, a hoarding is what we in the United States call a billboard:
"Advertising had a long history in Europe. . . . Roadside hoardings and placards were a longstanding blight in Italy well before the nineteen fifties, and any traveler in mid-century France would have been familiar with the exhortations painted high up on the side of rural farmhouses and urban terraces to drink St Raphael or Dubonnet."
– Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945</> (New York: Penguin, 2005), p. 349.
In castle architecture, a wooden fighting platform fitted to a parapet of wall as extra protection for defenders. See also bressumer.
In British usage, a hoarding is what we in the United States call a billboard:
"Advertising had a long history in Europe. . . . Roadside hoardings and placards were a longstanding blight in Italy well before the nineteen fifties, and any traveler in mid-century France would have been familiar with the exhortations painted high up on the side of rural farmhouses and urban terraces to drink St Raphael or Dubonnet."
– Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945</> (New York: Penguin, 2005), p. 349.