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Synonyms for cachet

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ka-shey, kash-ey; French ka-she
Phonetic Transcription : kæˈʃeɪ, ˈkæʃ eɪ; French kaˈʃɛ

Définition of cachet

Origin :
  • 1630s, Scottish borrowing of French cachet "seal affixed to a letter or document" (16c.), from Old French dialectal cacher "to press, crowd," from Latin coactare "constrain" (see cache). Meaning evolving through "(letter under) personal stamp (of the king)" to "prestige." Cf. French lettre de cachet "letter under seal of the king."
  • noun distinction
Example sentences :
  • It gave him a sort of cachet to be seen staying with Kit alone at a watering-place.
  • Extract from : « Mammon and Co. » by E. F. Benson
  • The food is excellent--it has a cachet of its own; the wine more than merely good.
  • Extract from : « Alone » by Norman Douglas
  • My dear, you know you are beautiful, and you have the cachet that all the Courthornes wear.
  • Extract from : « The Impostor » by Harold Bindloss
  • Raffles bestowed the cachet of his smile on my description of his motley plate.
  • Extract from : « A Thief in the Night » by E. W. Hornung
  • It has a cachet concerning which there can be no possible error.
  • Extract from : « By-ways in Book-land » by William Davenport Adams
  • Rather than lose her, he would have given her a guinea as well as her cachet.
  • Extract from : « Men's Wives » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The speech of Mr. Valiant-for-Truth carried its cachet with it.
  • Extract from : « Gordon Keith » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • This might, indeed, be regarded as the cachet of the moral world.
  • Extract from : « The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. » by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • To be bidden to this garden-party was in itself a cachet of respectability.
  • Extract from : « From One Generation to Another » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • A raven hopping about the casks gives a je ne sais quoi, a cachet, to the premises.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920 » by Various

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