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

Accordingly I presented myself at the poste restante.

From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.

The doctor inquired at the poste restante in vain.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

For example, on payment of the usual delivery fee of 25 centimes a parcel may be delivered from the railway station to the local post office, where it will be retained in the poste restante.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

What you mean by "poste restante," God knows.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various