poste restante

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Leisurely two-sided correspondences were difficult to sustain, with Chatwin roving from one poste restante to the next.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

What you mean by "poste restante," God knows.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

I had told Grell that if it became necessary to write me under cover, he might do so at the poste restante, Folkestone.

From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank

For example, on payment of the usual delivery fee of 25 centimes a parcel may be delivered from the railway station to the local post office, where it will be retained in the poste restante.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

After breakfast we went to the post office for our "poste restante" letters, and after replying to them resumed our march.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert