réclame
Americannoun
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publicity; self-advertisement; notoriety.
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hunger for publicity; talent for getting attention.
noun
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public acclaim or attention; publicity
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the capacity for attracting publicity
Etymology
Origin of réclame
1865–70; < French, derivative of réclamer; see reclaim
Example Sentences
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He is only a past master of réclame, of the art of advertising.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
On literary réclame, he says much that is true—if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George
Instead of terrorizing the Parisians the Zeppelin raids have merely roused a vivid sense of sportsmanship and curiosity among them—at first they had a real réclame!
From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert
Its run for something like that money, in small educational manuals, has been in its way a triumph of pedagogic réclame.
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
And his friends were not powerful enough to make up for his lack of réclame.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
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