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

Direct your answer by return to me, poste restante, Calais.

From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Then he came back to the main point He has already had 2 letters from Dora, but not an answer to his letter, because she can't fetch it from the post office, poste restante.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden

Do not answer this to London, but to the poste restante, Frankfurt.

From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Rowlands, Walter

It is no matter where you stay," he said; "I shall write to you at the poste restante.

From The Holladay Case A Tale by Stevenson, Burton Egbert