lettre de cachet

1. 1.

   a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal

   Synonymscachet

   Broaderwarrant

   law

Questions about lettre de cachet

What does lettre de cachet mean?

lettre de cachet means "a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal".

What is another word for lettre de cachet?

Close synonyms include cachet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lettre de cachet a common word?

lettre de cachet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.