affiche
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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
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 German affiche of yesterday, ordering the Belgian flags taken down, has made everybody furious, and for a time we thought there might be trouble.
From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson
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
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
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
But what surprised me more was to read the affiches of the Comédie.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
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
