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
A reply poste restante, address on St. Genevieve in Missouri, will arrive to your faithful and obedient servant,
From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson
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 Rowlands, Walter
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.
He sent this letter to the poste restante at Windermere, as Lily had directed.
From Tongues of Conscience by Hichens, Robert Smythe