"No, I rather like her-so I suggested she should give her own poor locks a rest and have an artistic postiche made with mine; it made two, one to come and one to go-to the hairdresser.
"Jan and Her Job"
L. Allen Harker
I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.
"Old Calabria"
Norman Douglas