affiche

Example Sentences

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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

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 Wood, Mrs. Henry

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

And why on earth she chose to affiche herself with a man like Malcourt, Constance could not comprehend.

From The Firing Line by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Frye, Major W. E