affiche
Americannoun
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affiches
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of affiche
C18: from afficher to post
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And why on earth she chose to affiche herself with a man like Malcourt, Constance could not comprehend.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The composition of the affiche was that of the two Miss Dunns jointly, who prided themselves upon being elegant scholars.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
Sublimity glares from the theatrical hand-bill, and the menagerie affiche.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
Perhaps the most intolerable thing is the affiche of idolatry for Baudelaire.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
But the duke cannot stand this open affiche, and withdraws his allowances.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Though the posters are now displayed and sold as artworks, this wasn’t always the case; it wasn’t until the 1980s that affiches de voyages began to be considered collectibles.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021
Gazing into the windows of Elbé, the Paris shop selling affiches de voyages — antique travel posters — makes these past few months recede like a bad dream.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021
As France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign.
From Time Magazine Archive
The papers were insufficient: men sold pamphlets in the streets, and the "Journaux affiches" were invented, which were placarded against the walls of Paris, and around which groups of people were constantly collected.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
Suspended over the club chimney-piece was the usual notice-board, a perfect encyclopædia in its way, and covered with a trellis-work of crimson tape for the purpose of retaining the various affiches.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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