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cachet Definition

ca·chet (ka s̸hā, kas̸hā)

noun

  1. a seal or stamp on an official letter or document
  2. any sign of official approval
    1. a mark or sign showing something is genuine, authentic, or of superior quality
    2. distinction; prestige
  3. Philately a commemorative design on an envelope that marks some historical or philatelic event
  4. 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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