affiche
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The group to which she pointed was still distant, but Lord Findon, even at seventy, had the eyes of an eagle, and could read an affiche a mile off.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Germans got out an affiche of news this morning, stating that "les troupes Allemands ont fait des progrès sur certains points."
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
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)
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
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Here and there Dutch journalists stood hastily copying these "affiches" into their note-books.
From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise
What is a "Post" made and set up for, if not, among other things, to bear affiches testifying to the people of their wickedness?
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth