affiche

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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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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 Mack, Louise

The paper they were going to prosecute was an affiche calling upon the French people to overthrow l'aristocratie bourgeoise, which was as bad as the other, and to divide the lands.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

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

Perhaps the most intolerable thing is the affiche of idolatry for Baudelaire.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George