poste restante
Example Sentences
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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
When I showed my card to the poste restante clerk, he went carefully through the letters bearing the initial of my name and denied that there was any for me.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
What you mean by "poste restante," God knows.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
Do not answer this to London, but to the poste restante, Frankfurt.
From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Walter Rowlands
He sent this letter to the poste restante at Windermere, as Lily had directed.
From Tongues of Conscience by Robert Smythe Hichens