Definitions for cachet

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cachet ca·chet

Spelling: [ka-shey, kash-ey; French ka- Cachet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in cachet (acceht).

Definitions for cachet

noun

1. an official seal, as on a letter or document.
2. a distinguishing mark or feature; stamp:
3. a sign or expression of approval, especially from a person who has a great deal of prestige.
4. superior status; prestige:
5. Pharmacology. a hollow wafer for enclosing an ill-tasting medicine.
6. Philately. a firm name, slogan, or design stamped or printed on an envelope or folded letter.

Origin of cachet

1630-40; French: literally, something compressed to a small size, equivalent to cache cache + -et -et

Examples for cachet

My dear, you know you are beautiful, and you have the cachet that all the Courthornes wear.

It has a cachet concerning which there can be no possible error.

Being a fan of Liquid Sky carries the cachet of degenerate hipness to this day, 32 years after it was filmed.

Clearly, then, the way to get young Jews involved is to lure them with the cachet of the social justice movement.

Daniel Gross on how cachet has a way of developing into a real business.

They wanted some of the cachet that came with making and selling hybrids.

“I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt,” she said.

It gave him a sort of cachet to be seen staying with Kit alone at a watering-place.

The food is excellent--it has a cachet of its own; the wine more than merely good.

Raffles bestowed the cachet of his smile on my description of his motley plate.