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Cachet   /kˈæʃeɪ/   Listen
Cachet

noun
1.
An indication of approved or superior status.  Synonyms: seal, seal of approval.
2.
A warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal.  Synonym: lettre de cachet.
3.
A seal on a letter.






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"Cachet" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fleming is intensely literary. The appeal to the intellectual, to the fastidious reader is incessant. This is an attitude always rare in English fiction, but at that epoch almost unknown, and its presence in the writings of Disraeli gives them a cachet. Under all the preposterous conversation, all the unruly turmoil of description, there runs a strong thread of entirely sober, political, and philosophical ambition. Disraeli striving with all his might to be a great poet, ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... some difficulty, and compulsion at the Theatre or otherwise:—accepted, but withal confessed to his wife. The result was, no measuring of swords took place; and Rohan only blighted by public opinion, or incapable of farther blight that way, went at large; a convenient LETTRE DE CACHET having put Arouet again in the Bastille. Where for six months Arouet lodged a second time, the innocent not the guilty; making, we can well suppose, innumerable reflections on the phenomena of human life. Imprisonment once over, he hastily quitted for England; shaking the dust of ungrateful France ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—At Reinsberg—1736-1740 • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "Cachet" :   honor, honour, jurisprudence, law, laurels, stamp, accolade, warrant, award



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