réclame
Americannoun
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publicity; self-advertisement; notoriety.
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hunger for publicity; talent for getting attention.
noun
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public acclaim or attention; publicity
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the capacity for attracting publicity
Etymology
Origin of réclame
1865–70; < French, derivative of réclamer; reclaim
Example Sentences
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He remembered Adelle, or professed to, and gave her a kindly old man's smile when he shook hands with her, in spite of all the réclame of her indecorous return to her native land.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert
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 Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir
Its run for something like that money, in small educational manuals, has been in its way a triumph of pedagogic réclame.
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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
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
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