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Poste restante

noun

The part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it. Synonym: general delivery.

A notation written on mail that is to be held at the post office until called for (not in the United States or Canada).

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"Poste restante" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not, however, ordain that Clive Newcome should pass all his life at Naples. His Roman banker presently forwarded a few letters to his address; some which had arrived after his departure, others which had been lying at the Poste Restante, with his name written in perfectly legible characters, but which the authorities of the post, according to their custom, would not see when ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... that much, after all your suffering for her. I've asked the banker in Nuremberg to forward our letters to the poste restante in Ansbach. Isn't it good to see the crows again, after those ravens ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... very interesting while it lasted. Occasionally affairs overlapped, as when an appeal to F. to meet Norina once more in the Borghese appeared in print above F.'s request that the signorina in the pink hat would write to him at the Poste Restante. ...

— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton

... concierge's deposition, by a sort of inspiration he thought of a way of disposing of them. He would divide them into small packages, place them in envelopes, and address them with different initials to the poste restante, where they would remain until he could call for ...

— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot

... an hour I had telegraphed the news to Box 296, Poste Restante, Petrograd, which was the ...

— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux