affiche
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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 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
Sublimity glares from the theatrical hand-bill, and the menagerie affiche.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
And why on earth she chose to affiche herself with a man like Malcourt, Constance could not comprehend.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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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Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
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
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