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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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The Kommandant put up an affiche on the hedge, forbidding any one to decorate the grave.

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather

And no list was "the thing" without his name; no reception, no garden party, no opera-box, or private concert, or rose-shadowed boudoir, fashionably affiche without being visited by him.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

Perhaps the most intolerable thing is the affiche of idolatry for Baudelaire.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

The Germans got out an affiche of news this morning, stating that "les troupes Allemands ont fait des progrès sur certains points."

From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

Meanwhile the Aldermen were busy preparing a new affiche which was soon being posted up in all directions.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack

Gazing into the windows of Elbé, the Paris shop selling affiches de voyages — antique travel posters — makes these past few months recede like a bad dream.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021

Though the posters are now displayed and sold as artworks, this wasn’t always the case; it wasn’t until the 1980s that affiches de voyages began to be considered collectibles.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021

As France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there Dutch journalists stood hastily copying these "affiches" into their note-books.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack

As the English quit Rome, the swallows arrive, and may be seen in great muster flitting up and down the streets, looking at the affiches of vacancies before fixing on a lodging.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various




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