réclame
Example Sentences
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And his friends were not powerful enough to make up for his lack of réclame.
From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick
All this eminent half-dozen is glanced at, with distinct and several sneers, in a little volume which, rendered useless by lack of notes and index, must advertise itself by the réclame of abuse.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This method of calling attention to the merits of wares was a French one—a sort of réclame introduced by Villemessant in his journal La Sylphide.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
And then to have to watch Dad and mother still pushing, scheming, intriguing; always with the affectation of despising réclame, yet doing nothing—not the most simple act—without a careful eye to it!
From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
The art which descends to réclame is no art be it lauded a hundred or a thousand-fold.
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
