affiche
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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
I caught the heading of the affiche: "Music-Hall-Eldorado."
From Jaffery by William John Locke
And why on earth she chose to affiche herself with a man like Malcourt, Constance could not comprehend.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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 George Saintsbury
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
The papers were insufficient: men sold pamphlets in the streets, and the "Journaux affiches" were invented, which were placarded against the walls of Paris, and around which groups of people were constantly collected.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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
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