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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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The Germans got out an affiche of news this morning, stating that "les troupes Allemands ont fait des progrès sur certains points."

From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

The group to which she pointed was still distant, but Lord Findon, even at seventy, had the eyes of an eagle, and could read an affiche a mile off.

From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The composition of the affiche was that of the two Miss Dunns jointly, who prided themselves upon being elegant scholars.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

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

The Kommandant put up an affiche on the hedge, forbidding any one to decorate the grave.

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather

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

Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The papers were insufficient: men sold pamphlets in the streets, and the "Journaux affiches" were invented, which were placarded against the walls of Paris, and around which groups of people were constantly collected.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde


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