- 1格調、身價、特有的光環（不是單純「很好」，而是讓人覺得有派）
If something has cachet, people do not only think it is good. They think it is special — it has a kind of glow around it, a name that makes others sit up. A small hotel can have cachet if the right people stay there. A university, a brand of watch, a street, even a job can have it. The feeling is about reputation and taste, not about a prize on paper. The word itself feels a little fancy; you will meet it in magazines and in talk about style, not in the playground. English borrowed it from French, and it still sounds French when you say it: ka-SHAY, not “catch-it.” People use it most as a noun: a certain cachet, the cachet of. They also stretch it: a cheap thing that tries to have cachet, or a job that has lost its cachet. Underneath, the French word first meant a seal stamped on a letter — a mark that said “this is official, this is ours.” In ordinary English today, that “special mark” has become this feeling of being a cut above.
組成Borrowed from French cachet, first appearing in Scottish English from 1630. In French it first meant a seal on a letter; the “special mark” idea later became prestige.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cachetnoun/kæˈʃeɪ/
- 1
archaicA seal, as of a letter.
- 2
A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association.
- I remember when this diner was a quiet hangout, but lately it seems to be losing its cachet.
- In fact, within the Waffen-SS as a whole, the carrying of a personal weapon such as a pistol or a submachine-gun in addition to or instead of the issue rifle became something of a cachet.
- 3
hobbieslifestylephilatelyA commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
- The Alcatraz pelican cachet turned out to have a unique history of its own which had been lost over the years. Master cachet designer and artist John Coulthard (1903-1966) of 17 Elm Street Modesto, California, was the creator of the stamp.
- 4
A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
- The most romantic rite of bargaining is the cachet; even its name suggests a thrilling secrecy. The cachet is used when a broker negotiates the sale of a diamond.
- 5
medicinesciencesA capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
- In order to facilitate taking by the patient, powders are often ordered to be dispensed in cachets.
- One cachet on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, a second in one and a half hours, a third in one hour afterwards, and a fourth two hours later.
- 6
A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
- On my way back to my cachet I met another party of reed-buntings, one of which I bagged; then I sat in my hiding-place for an hour, waiting for geese that never came within range.
cachetverb/kæˈʃeɪ/
- 1
hobbieslifestylephilatelyTo mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。