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Poster   /pˈoʊstər/   Listen
noun
Poster  n.  
1.
A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
2.
One who posts bills; a billposter.


Poster  n.  
1.
One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land."
2.
A post horse. "Posters at full gallop."





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"Poster" Quotes from Famous Books



... question had at length been resolved by wiser heads than mine, and when, too, I felt I could write calmly, with no fear of an action for contempt of court before my eyes, I confess that a poster announcing an open-air Tichborne meeting in Mr. Warren's cricket-field, Notting Hill, was too fascinating for me. I had heard of such gatherings in provincial places and East End halls; but this invasion of the West was breaking new ground. I would go; in fine I ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... December was a day that I shall vividly remember for the rest of my life. We left Ferrara about 1 p.m. after one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations I have ever seen. That morning the town had been placarded far and wide with the following poster:— ...
— With British Guns in Italy - A Tribute to Italian Achievement • Hugh Dalton
... the steps of the store, this evening in late August, he saw, tacked to the doorside clapboards, a truly gorgeous poster. By the light of the flickering lamp over the door, he discerned the vivid scarlet head of a dog in the upper corner of the yellow placard, and ...
— His Dog • Albert Payson Terhune
... in with ashlar and cement, one storey high with an attic above. Over the door was an enormous branch of pine, looking as though it were cast in Florentine bronze. As if this symbol were not explanatory enough, the eye was arrested by the blue of a poster which was pasted over the doorway, and on which appeared, above the words "Good Beer of Mars," the picture of a soldier pouring out, in the direction of a very decolletee woman, a jet of foam which spurted in an ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... PLATE L. Facsimile of poster used to show the difference between cattle of similar breeding raised on a tick-free farm in one case and on a ticky farm in ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture


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