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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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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

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

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

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

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

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather

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

Suspended over the club chimney-piece was the usual notice-board, a perfect encyclopædia in its way, and covered with a trellis-work of crimson tape for the purpose of retaining the various affiches.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

What is a "Post" made and set up for, if not, among other things, to bear affiches testifying to the people of their wickedness?

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey


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