cahiern.
1. ‘A book of loose sheets tacked together; whence, reports of proceedings contained in such a book’. More usually, an exercise-book, pamphlet, or fascicle.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > exercise book
writing book1599
exercise book1813
cahier1849
1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3) (Suppl.); whence in Worcester, Webster, etc.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xvi. 271 Her eyes were fastened on the cahier open before her.
1909 E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. iii. 37 You can divide my school books and cahiers among you.
1958 Notes & Queries Nov. 488/1 A cahier is being prepared in commemoration of the centenary of Eleanora Duse's birth.
1964 E. Bowen Little Girls i. ii. 24 He returned his cahier to it ostentatiously.
2. Historical. The instructions prepared by each of the three representative bodies as a guide for their policy at the National Assembly of 1789 in France.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > policy document > specifically in revolutionary France
cahier1789
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 27 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 126 These cahiers being instructions given to their deputies, I have now gone through them all.
1805 Edinb. Rev. 6 152 Busily employed in preparing the cahiers or instructions for the direction of their deputies.
1847 C. Cocks tr. J. Michelet Hist. Fr. Rev. 77 The uniformity of the memorials (cahiers) in which they recorded their complaints.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 597/1 Early in 1789 all France was busy with the elections to the States-General, and in drawing up the cahiers, or papers of grievances.
1887 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. V. xx. 430 The cahiers of the clergy showed a frank willingness to surrender all privileges.
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