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
I told him that he reasoned well; but that, should the chapter change such a resolution, my address would be found at Vienna, poste restante, till the 20th of the following month.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I used to have my letters addressed there, poste restante, and call in for them when I happened to be in Kimberley.
From Uncanny Tales by Various
The doctor inquired at the poste restante in vain.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
What you mean by "poste restante," God knows.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
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