poste restante

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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

A reply poste restante, address on St. Genevieve in Missouri, will arrive to your faithful and obedient servant,

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

The doctor inquired at the poste restante in vain.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

After breakfast we went to the post office for our "poste restante" letters, and after replying to them resumed our march.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

Si vous voulez donc me dire quelque chose de vous, et que ma lettre ne vous a point d�plu, vous pouvez addresser votre r�ponse � Bruxelles, poste restante.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various