cachet: [17] Cachet was a Scottish borrowing of a French word which originally meant ‘seal affixed to a letter or document’. In the 19th century this developed into the figurative ‘personal stamp, distinguishing characteristic’, which, through its use in the context of distinguished or fashionable people or things, has come to mean ‘prestige’. The original notion contained in the word is of ‘pressing’.
It comes via the medieval French verb cacher ‘press’ from Latin coactāre ‘constrain’. This was a derivative of coact-, the past participial stem of cōgere ‘drive together’ (source of English cogent), a compound verb formed from con- ‘together’ and agere ‘drive’ (source of English act and a host of other derivatives from agent to prodigal).
Modern French cacher means ‘hide’, which is the source of cache ‘hoard’, borrowed by English in the 19th century. => cache, cogent
cachet (n.)
1630s, Scottish borrowing of French cachet "seal affixed to a letter or document" (16c.), from Old French dialectal cacher "to press, crowd," from Latin coactare "constrain" (see cache). Meaning evolving through "(letter under) personal stamp (of the king)" to "prestige." Compare French lettre de cachet "letter under seal of the king."
双语例句
1. The social cachet of some form of qualification in India is powerful.
在印度，具有某种资格享有巨大的社会威望。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A Mercedes carries a certain cachet.
梅塞德斯车代表一种尊贵。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack.
联邦法院有某种州法院所缺乏的特别的东西.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Her success in business had earned her a certain cachet in society.
她事业有成,赢得了一定的社会声望.
来自辞典例句
5. In the world of jewelry, the Cartier name has long - standing cachet.
