lettre de cachet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lettre de cachet	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for lettre de cachet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lettre de cachet n a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal Synonym(s): cachet, lettre de cachet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Cachet \[d8]Cach"et\, n. [F. fr. cacher to hide.] A seal, as of a letter. {Lettre de cachet} [F.], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment.