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 line will find me at Venice, poste restante, all September.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
He sent this letter to the poste restante at Windermere, as Lily had directed.
From Tongues of Conscience by Robert Smythe Hichens
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
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