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lettres de cachet

lettres de cachet is the plural of lettre de cachet.

Meaning of lettre de cachet

Noun

lettre de cachet (plural lettres de cachet)

  1. (historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.
    • I lost my temper, and spoke so irreverently of the Grand Monarque, that the next morning I was sent to the Bastile, by virtue of a Lettre de Cachet.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Questions about lettres de cachet

What is lettres de cachet the plural of?
Lettres de cachet is the plural of lettre de cachet.

Words near lettres de cachet in the dictionary

  1. Lettow
  2. Lettowe
  3. lettre
  4. lettre de cachet
  5. lettres
  6. lettres de cachet
  7. lettrism
  8. lettrist
  9. lettrists
  10. Letts
  11. lettsomite

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