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  • n  an indication of approved or superior status
  • n  a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal
  • n  a seal on a letter

  • Think of anorexia as the negative marathon of eating disorders: If it were easy, everyone would do it, and then what kind of cachet would it have?.
  • This mystique has bestowed cachet on Nigo's clothes and accessories even among some of the West's coolest celebrities, ranging from New York City graffiti artist Futura 2000 to .
  • Even a copy of a Chanel could claim its cachet.
News & Articles

  • Frogs’ Legs May Be Out of Favor, but Not Flavor
    With the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1970s, frogs’ legs lost their cachet. But search hard enough, and you will find a lover of cuisses de grenouilles.
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times
  • E3 show not attracting video-game rising stars, WSJ reports
    The Electronic Entertainment Expo has served as the center of the video-game world, but E3, which begins this week in Los Angeles, is losing some cachet as it fails to attract the industry's new rising ...
    June 10, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
  • Frogs’ Legs May Be Out of Favor, but Not Flavor
    With the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1970s, frogs’ legs lost their cachet. But search hard enough, and you will find a lover of cuisses de grenouilles.
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • Grant Barrett in Forbes
    Are you tracking the term `toe-tapper?' That's gotten more traction than `wide stance' so far,Barrett said. "They both have too much cachet. They're political, social, new, slangy and a little naughty."
  • Jose Mourinho in Goal.com
    When I was a child I heard dozens of stories of Eusebio, who was injured but had to play a certain game because of the cachet of the match,recalled Mourinho. "Pele, too, was always involved in tense situations. But there is a limit - a...
  • Frances Kissling in Christian Post
    They no longer are much of a force. Nobody talks much about them. It is a historical remnant of their heyday that gives them any kind of cachet,said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for Free Choice.

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