affiche

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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

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

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

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 Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

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

From Jaffery by Locke, William John