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postal note

British  

noun

  1. the usual name for postal order

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The farmer wondered for an hour what the editor was driving at, when he happened to think of the word "unsettled," and he sent a postal note forthwith.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

We then began to make active preparations for the introduction of the strawberry-roan two-cent stamps and the black-and-tan postal note.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

Send small sums, from 50 cents to one or two dollars by postal note, cash or stamps; larger sums should be sent by registered mail or post office order.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

Wrote five times, but could not get packet back again, though I enclosed postal note for return in case of rejection.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane

When I say dollar, darling, of course an express order, or a postal note, or even stamps would be all the same.

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

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