réclame

Example Sentences

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Instead of terrorizing the Parisians the Zeppelin raids have merely roused a vivid sense of sportsmanship and curiosity among them—at first they had a real réclame!

From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The art which descends to réclame is no art be it lauded a hundred or a thousand-fold.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley

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 Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

From there he had only recently returned with the réclame of one who has adventured far and seen strange lands.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine