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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

... your old life. I saw at once that my words comforted her. But afterwards, when week passed after week and you did not send us a single line, she grew very troubled, mostly about your health, but I fancy because she thought you had forgotten her. I, too, began to feel uneasy, and wrote 'poste restante' to Corfu, as we had agreed. Not getting any reply, I am sending another letter to your house at Rome, because the thought that you may be ill makes us all very unhappy. Write, if only a few lines; and, Leon, dear, pull yourself together, shake off that apathy, and be yourself again. I will be quite ...

— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... 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

Words linked to "Poste restante" : post office, general delivery, local post office, social unit, annotation, notation, unit, note