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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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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

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

But the duke cannot stand this open affiche, and withdraws his allowances.

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

The regiment was soon fitted up and the soldiers began to put in practice in good earnest the theory of the affiche.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye

This affiche was dated like the former, and certified under the august hand of Quentin Quackleben, M.D., &c. &c. &c.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

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

But what surprised me more was to read the affiches of the Comédie.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat


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