cachet
cachet
Definition
ca·chet (ka s̸hā′, kas̸h′ā)
noun
- a seal or stamp on an official letter or document
- any sign of official approval
- a mark or sign showing something is genuine, authentic, or of superior quality
- distinction; prestige
- Philately a commemorative design on an envelope that marks some historical or philatelic event
- a little, round wafer enclosing a bad-tasting medicine
Etymology: Fr < cacher: see cache
transitive verb
Philately to print a cachet on (an envelope)
cachet
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- carry: Mr Kebede appreciates that Addis Ababa, does not quite carry the same design cachet of Milan or Paris.
- add: The high level of fluorescence of fluorite from this classic area, adds an extra cachet other locations do not have.
- have: It does not, however, have the usual first flight cachet.
- enjoy: During the 1950s and 1960s it enjoyed enormous cachet among visitors from North West England, the Borders, Wales and Ireland.
- give: When he trails about in an abba he gives cachet to my garden I can tell you!
- attach: Witness the cultural cachet attached to doing the weekly shop at a farmers ' market as opposed to the local supermarket.
Adjective modifier
- certain: Trout have star quality and a certain cachet: every knows what they look like: everyone knows what they taste like.
- special: US to New Zealand via Fiji To Fiji Special cachets were applied for mail to Suva.
- social: Cocaine is still seen as the upmarket club and sex drug of choice and its use confers social cachet and respectability on its users.
- international: For advanced skiers, Schladming, with its World Cup pedigree and international cachet, must definitely not be sniffed at.
- same: Mr Kebede appreciates that Addis Ababa, does not quite carry the same design cachet of Milan or Paris.
- added: With Sex and the City costume designer and stylist Patricia Fields dressing the Devil women, the bag has received added cachet.
Preposition: on
- back: There is an Auckland backstamp of 12 April and a faint official cachet on the back.
Noun used with modifier
- flight: The cover has a San Francisco to Hong Kong first flight cachet.
Preposition: in
- red: In these the Richmond cachet is in black and the New Plymouth cachet in red as in the second example.
Preposition: of
- listing: In many areas, the cachet of listing may add to the value of residential property.
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