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Postmark

noun

A cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing.

verb

(past & past part. postmarked; pres. part. postmarking)

Stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing. Synonym: frank.

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"Postmark" Quotes from Famous Books

... no news of her,—not yet, at least. What made you fancy it? This is only a letter from your protg at Antioch College: at least, I suppose so from the postmark. Do you care to ...

— Outpost • J.G. Austin

... present occasion after all was somehow the easier. He tried at any rate to attach that feeling to it while he stopped before his companion. "The communication I speak of can't possibly belong—so far as its date is concerned—to these last days. The postmark, which is legible, does; but it isn't thinkable, for anything else, that she wrote—!" He dropped, looking at her as if ...

— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James

... of his other letters were from friends in regiments at home bewailing their hard fortune at being out of the fighting. The last he opened bore the latest postmark. It was from his solicitor, and ...

— The Queen's Cup • G. A. Henty

... name of that Pike County man who was killed by Injins in the plains. The 'Frisco papers had all the particulars last night; may be it's for that fellow. It hasn't got a postmark. Who left it here?" ...

— A Waif of the Plains • Bret Harte

... of this letter—postmark ought to be good evidence of the date of this great humanizing and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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