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‖ cachet|kaʃɛ|
Also 6–7 catchet.
[Fr.; f. cacher to conceal: in 18th c. treated as English.]
1. A seal. letter of cachet (F. lettre de cachet): a letter under the private seal of the French king, containing an order, often of exile or imprisonment.
a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scotl. iv. (1677) 193 She had appointed, in stead of his hand, a Cachet to be used in the signing of Letters. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 177 On the accession of James VI. to the crown of England, a catchet or seal was made, having the King's name engraved on it, with which all signatures were to be afterwards sealed. 1753Scots Mag. XV. 62/2 He obtained a letter of cachet.
2. fig. Stamp, distinguishing mark, ‘sign manual’.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1885) 69 All his works [pictures] have a grand cachet: he never did anything mean. 1882C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxii. 176 The journal in which the cachet of fashionable life is to be distinguished.
3. attrib. Done under letter of cachet; privy, secret.
1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 293 Abominators of all close, cachet, muffled..proceedings.
4. A covering of paste, gelatine, or other digestible material, enclosing (nauseous) medicine; = capsule 5.
1884Pharmac. Jrnl. XV. 42/2 Cachets are..sheets of unleavened bread cut to a round or oval shape with a..concave towards the centre,..intended to receive the powder to be taken. 1898Q. Hogg in Ethel M. Hogg Biography (1904) 349 My experience and cachets were of use to him. 1901Contemp. Rev. Mar. 405 One cachet..to be taken with the midday meal and one in the evening.
▸ Prestige, high status; the quality of being respected or admired.
1882Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 27 Apr. 3/1 The Dorsey levite..is very stylish; it is difficult to make and still more difficult to wear, and will consequently retain its cachet and not become common. 1900A. Blunt Jrnl. 8 May (1986) x. 280 Certainly there is a ‘cachet’ about the Abbas Pasha descent even though the other 6 [horses] are about as highly bred as possible. 1952H. Wouk Caine Mutiny i. ii. 15 Then it became a mere racial quirk of a lower social group, and lost its cachet. 1988J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 55 And there is a certain cachet in not telling. 2006Direct Feb. 30/4 Porche's cachet makes its showrooms ‘destination dealerships’. |