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
Address either to Milan, poste restante, or by way of Geneva, to the care of Monsr.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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
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
A reply poste restante, address on St. Genevieve in Missouri, will arrive to your faithful and obedient servant,
From The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough
