poste restante
nounEtymology Borrowed from French poste restante.
1
A postal service in which a mail is held at a post office to be collected by the recipient
- This was in the old days, before the expansion of the internet, so we hadn’t received any news from Norway. The only exceptions were letters from girlfriends, friends and family that were sent poste restante to the harbors where we were expected.2017, Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise, page 50:
- Synonyms
- general delivery, to be called for, care of post office
- Related terms
- accommodation address