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‖ poste restante|pɔstrɛstɑ̃t|
[Fr., = remaining (at the) post office.]
A direction written upon a letter which is to remain at the post office till called for; in English use, transferred to the department in a post office in which letters for travellers or visitors are kept till applied for.
1768Sarah Osborn Pol. & Soc. Lett. 9 Feb. (1890) 181 Your brother's letter to you Postrestant at Turin will acquaint you of his success. 1777in Jesse Geo. Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 230 You will address your answer to this to Paris, Poste Restante. 1816Byron Let. to Moore 5 Dec., Direct to me here, poste restante. 1822W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 131 Do write to me, and direct your letters ‘poste restante, Dresden’. 1844E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 129 As you give me no particular direction, I wrote to you at the Post Restante there [Florence]. 1880Brit. Postal Guide 92 There is a Poste Restante both at the General Post Office St. Martin's-le-Grand, and at the Charing Cross Post Office, where letters ‘to be called for’ can be obtained between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. |