labelscar

English

Etymology

label +‎ scar, from label (“sign giving information about something to which it is attached”) + scar (“permanent mark resulting from damage”).

Noun

labelscar (plural labelscars)

1. An outline left behind by the removal of a sign from a building.
   • 2005 September 26, Steven Swain, “Eastland Mall – Tulsa, OK.”, in That Mall is sick and that Store is dead!‎^[1]:

     I love a good labelscar.

   • 2010 August 5, AmericanDirt, “Rolling back the pages of mega-retail history.”, in American Dirt‎^[2]:

     As I got closer to the structure, I could just begin to discern some lettering out of the labelscar, followed by the inevitable palm to the forehead.

   • 2019 July 3, The Gone-Ton (@gone_ton), Twitter‎^[3]:

     It's not every day you see a labelscar as nasty as that one left by Old Navy.

   • 2023 May 11, Jamie Bradburn (@jbcurio), Twitter‎^[4]:

     Labelscar of the Toronto Star at 1 Yonge