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affiche

[a-feesh] / aˈfiʃ /




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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

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

Meanwhile the Aldermen were busy preparing a new affiche which was soon being posted up in all directions.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack

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

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

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather

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

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

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

As the English quit Rome, the swallows arrive, and may be seen in great muster flitting up and down the streets, looking at the affiches of vacancies before fixing on a lodging.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

They go about the country canvassing for their husbands; wear the colours of the party; and have affiches sometimes in their windows.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington


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