affiche
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Meanwhile the Aldermen were busy preparing a new affiche which was soon being posted up in all directions.
From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack
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 paper they were going to prosecute was an affiche calling upon the French people to overthrow l'aristocratie bourgeoise, which was as bad as the other, and to divide the lands.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
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
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
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
Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
As the English quit Rome, the swallows arrive, and may be seen in great muster flitting up and down the streets, looking at the affiches of vacancies before fixing on a lodging.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
