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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

I caught the heading of the affiche: "Music-Hall-Eldorado."

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

Sublimity glares from the theatrical hand-bill, and the menagerie affiche.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

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 Gibson, Hugh

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 Saintsbury, George

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

They go about the country canvassing for their husbands; wear the colours of the party; and have affiches sometimes in their windows.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

Here and there Dutch journalists stood hastily copying these "affiches" into their note-books.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise




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