fiche
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fiche
By shortening
Example Sentences
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L'Oetivre of Paris told its readers the following wartime story: Stopping in a small-town hotel "somewhere in France," French Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin was handed a "fiche," police questionnaire all travelers must fill out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an archaic law, any guest registering at a French hotel is required to fill out and sign a form, called la fiche, establishing his identity, address, occupation and, if a foreigner, his passport number.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its motto: "Je m'en fiche" He happily enacted literary charades as one of William Lyon Phelps's "Pundits," and just as happily turned down Skull and Bones in favor of Wolf's Head.
From Time Magazine Archive
His "fiche" is taken out, and copies of the photograph on it are distributed in the usual quarters.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
"Et quant à un duc de farce, je ne m'en fiche pas mal, moi," it said in an accent curiously compounded of the foreign and the coulisse.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
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