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Cachet

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Noun

1. cachet, seal, seal of approval

an indication of approved or superior status

2. cachet, lettre de cachet

a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal

3. cachet

a seal on a letter

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cachet

see synonyms of cachet
noun
1. 
an official seal on a document, letter, etc
2. 
a distinguishing mark; stamp
3. 
prestige; distinction
4. philately
a. 
a mark stamped by hand on mail for commemorative purposes
b. 
a small mark made by dealers and experts on the back of postage stamps
Compare overprint (sense 3), surcharge (sense 5)
5. 
a hollow wafer, formerly used for enclosing an unpleasant-tasting medicine

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Cachet

see synonyms of cachet
noun
1. 
a seal or stamp on an official letter or document
see also lettre de cachet
2. 
any sign of official approval
3. 
a. 
a mark or sign showing something is genuine, authentic, or of superior quality
b. 
distinction; prestige
4.  Philately
a commemorative design on an envelope that marks some historical or philatelic event
5. 
a little, round wafer enclosing a bad-tasting medicine
verb transitive
6.  Philately
to print a cachet on (an envelope)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cachet

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n.
1.
a. Great prestige or appeal: a designer label with cachet.
b. A quality of prestige or appeal: "Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack" (Christian Science Monitor).
c. A mark, as of distinction, individuality, or authenticity: "In our times the thick wad of credit cards is a cachet of respectability" (John D. MacDonald).
2. A seal on a document, such as a letter.
3.
a. A commemorative design stamped on an envelope to mark a postal or philatelic event.
b. A motto forming part of a postal cancellation.
4. A kind of wafer capsule formerly used by pharmacists for presenting an unpleasant-tasting drug.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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