affiche
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This affiche was dated like the former, and certified under the august hand of Quentin Quackleben, M.D., &c. &c. &c.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
And no list was "the thing" without his name; no reception, no garden party, no opera-box, or private concert, or rose-shadowed boudoir, fashionably affiche without being visited by him.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
But the duke cannot stand this open affiche, and withdraws his allowances.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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 Major W. E Frye
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 George Saintsbury
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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An old favourite was described in the affiches as le Due de Nouveau-Cirque.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 by Various
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 Mary Elizabeth Dewey