What is "restante"

Usage examples of "restante".

A little before the expiration of the two months, during which time the poste restante retained the letters containing the thirty thousand francs, he called for them, and readdressed and mailed them to other post-offices.

Her cloakroom story must have been true, then: she had simply given herself double cover, mailing the ticket to herself at the poste restante.

Recorté la hoja en seis tiras, escribí talismanes e invocaciones en las cinco primeras, y en la restante las siguientes palabras que están en el glorioso Qurán: 'Hemos retirado tu velo, y la visión de tus ojos es penetrante'.

I only discovered at this stage that the Post Office would not redirect mail to a post restante address and required evidence of my address.

Even something of a medium size would have tempted him to take it into a village post office and address it post restante in the U.

Maybe I'll post the damned thing to post restante, Akureyri, and telegraph Slade telling him where to pick it up.

I consoled myself with the thought that there was nothing illegal in using a poste restante address.

He had checked his poste restante box and found Shannon's telegram waiting for him.

But I did keep the second one -- the one that gave the poste restante address.

Here a poste restante pigeon-hole was nerved in the name of one Poitiers.

All mail for the top men of the OAS was addressed to Poitiers, and was kept by the clerk on duty at the poste restante counter.

Not that I spent much time in the mosque but I thought I had made a major error when I entered the post office for the first time to collect letters from poste restante.