affiche
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The composition of the affiche was that of the two Miss Dunns jointly, who prided themselves upon being elegant scholars.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
But when we had finished dinner an affiche announcing A�da turned us from the Salles de Jeu to the Salle du Th��tre.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
But it was not till three o'clock in the morning that the word "Victory!" was proclaimed by an affiche on the walls to the terrified population of Bruxelles!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 by Various
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 Frye, Major W. E
The group to which she pointed was still distant, but Lord Findon, even at seventy, had the eyes of an eagle, and could read an affiche a mile off.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
There were quantities of affiches posted everywhere this morning which I shouldn't think would please either the King of Italy or the French President: "Viva Loubet—Viva Combes—Viva la France anticl�ricale."
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
But what surprised me more was to read the affiches of the Comédie.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
