cachet
Other forms: cachets
Certain high-end brands have a particular cachet, or respectability. People just know they are the finest of their kind.
The word cachet comes from the French cachet meaning "seal affixed to a letter or document," and if something has cachet, it's as if it has a seal of approval from society. If you start a design company selling cachets for people to seal their letters with fancy wax, try getting some celebrities to endorse it. Then your cachets will have cachet — and that's fancy.
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an indication of approved or superior status
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a seal on a letter
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a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his sealsynonyms: lettre de cachettype of:warranta writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
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