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
I shall be at Munich on Friday, and have written to Hallam Tennyson, poste restante; but I hope to waylay them at the station.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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
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
The doctor inquired at the poste restante in vain.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
