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ca·chet
Audio Help [ka-shey, kash-ey; Fr. ka-she] Pronunciation Key
Audio Help [ka-shey, kash-ey; Fr. ka-she] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural ca·chets
Audio Help [ka-sheyz, kash-eyz; Fr. ka-she] Pronunciation Key.
Audio Help [ka-sheyz, kash-eyz; Fr. ka-she] Pronunciation Key. | 1. | an official seal, as on a letter or document. |
| 2. | a distinguishing mark or feature; stamp: Courtesy is the cachet of good breeding. |
| 3. | a sign or expression of approval, esp. from a person who has a great deal of prestige. |
| 4. | superior status; prestige: The job has a certain cachet. |
| 5. | Pharmacology. a hollow wafer for enclosing an ill-tasting medicine. |
| 6. | Philately. a firm name, slogan, or design stamped or printed on an envelope or folded letter. |
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| ca·chet
Audio Help (kā-shā') Pronunciation Key
n.
[French, from Old French, from cacher, to press; see cache.] |
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cachet
1639, Scottish borrowing of Fr. cachet "seal affixed to a letter or document," from O.Fr. cacher "to press, crowd," from L. coactare "constrain" (see cache). Meaning evolving through "(letter under) personal stamp (of the king)" to "prestige."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| cachet | |
noun | |
| 1. | an indication of approved or superior status |
| 2. | a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal |
| 3. | a seal on a letter |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
- An edible wafer capsule used for enclosing an unpleasant-tasting drug.
| The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
Main Entry: ca·chet
Pronunciation: ka-'shA
Function: noun
: a medicinal preparation for swallowing consisting of a case usually of rice-flour paste
containing an unpleasant-tasting medicine called also wafer, wafer capsule
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Cachet
Cach"et\, n. [F. fr. cacher to hide.] A seal, as of a letter. Lettre de cachet [F.], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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