lettre de cachet
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French lettre de cachet.
Noun
[edit]lettre de cachet (plural lettres de cachet)
- (now historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- “Bon Dieu!” thought the old negotiator, “the boy has actually talked the woman round, and she’d get him a wife as she would a toy if Master cried for it. Why are there no such things as lettres-de-cachet—and a Bastille for young fellows of family?”
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 113:
- This year the King sent it to Troyes, each member ordered there by an individual lettre de cachet.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 22:
- Louis stepped up persecution of prominent Jansenists, using lettres de cachet to imprison the most subversive [...].
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lettre de cachet f (plural lettres de cachet)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French lettre de cachet.
Noun
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lettre de cachet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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