affiche
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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
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
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
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
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 Lewis Gaylord Clark
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
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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 Mary King Waddington
Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
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