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Postmark

noun

A cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing.

verb

(past & past part. postmarked; pres. part. postmarking)

Stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing. Synonym: frank.

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"Postmark" Quotes from Famous Books

... postmark of a city in the Rhenish Palatinate. A telegram brought the reply that a company of jugglers had been there a short while ago, but that they had already gone. It was impossible to say in what direction, but it was most likely that they had gone ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole—a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. "Here I am, my lovely friend," Miss Stackpole wrote; "I managed to get off at last. I decided only the night before I left New ...

— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James

... an additional interest to the morning budget. Her letters were invariably examined with bland curiosity and handed on to her with comments appropriate to their appearance. Occasionally envelopes with an Australian postmark reached her, and these always excited especial notice. The brief spell of Avery's married life had been spent in a corner of New South Wales. In the early part of their acquaintance, Mr. Lorimer had ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

... away, then with a quick hand and a keen eye he turned over the letters which lay where Adrien had carelessly thrown them. Amongst them was one which had been evidently overlooked, for it was unopened. It bore the Barminster postmark, and Jasper's eyes shone. Could he but learn its contents? He picked it up; turning it over and over in his hand. To his intense delight it was but lightly sealed, and by dint of a little care the letter was safely opened, uninjured ...

— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

... Leeds postmark, and the letter itself was evidently written hurriedly in a flowing, ...

— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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