affiche
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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
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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
Observe that particular affiche about a spy, please.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer
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
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 Mrs. Henry Wood
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
The papers were insufficient: men sold pamphlets in the streets, and the "Journaux affiches" were invented, which were placarded against the walls of Paris, and around which groups of people were constantly collected.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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
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