;Posted on 04/09/2015 5:15:23 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Thursday, April 9, 2015-- cachet
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cachet [ka-shey, kash-ey; French ka-she]
plural cachets [ka-sheyz, kash-eyz; French ka-she] hear it pronounced
noun
1. an official seal, as on a letter or document.
2. a distinguishing mark or feature; stamp: Courtesy is the cachet of good breeding.
3. a sign or expression of approval, especially from a person who has a great deal of prestige.
4. superior status; prestige: The job has a certain cachet.
5. Pharmacology. a hollow wafer for enclosing an ill-tasting medicine.
6. Philately. a firm name, slogan, or design stamped or printed on an envelope or folded letter.
Origin: 1630-40; < French: literally, something compressed to a small size, equivalent to cache cache + -et -et
Word Origin and History for 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." Cf. French lettre de cachet "letter under seal of the king."
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And they ask you if you want to eat it here or take it oot.
Thank you! I’ve been having flashbacks to the Carter years ever since gas process went up and my income went down with the economy...
Yes, Take-Oot is an option there, particularly at Tim Hortons…
(In Australia, I recall the term was “take-away”; and from Canadian ex-pats, you might hear “take-away, eh?” ;)
At the risk of sounding like too much of a hipster... Oh what the heck I’ll ask anyway— have you ever tried cold brew iced coffee? They started selling it at Starbucks and it is markedly smoother tasting and less acidic than iced coffee which is brewed hot the traditional way. I bought a cold brew pitcher on Amazon and made it overnight last night (same concept as the old “sun tea”) and it’s quite good. It makes a concentrate that you then add either milk or water to before drinking. Packs a caffeine punch.
This is scary: it will give the “sashay” types certain cachet to exert their authority:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277556/posts
“prices”-I got a spelling/grammar thingee free with an invoice program, and decided to try it-it appears to have mind of its own so I uninstalled it...
A bunch of MrT5’s relatives still live in Canada-they seemed to end every sentence with eh? and they emphasized different syllables of some words than we do here.
I’ve been making sun tea for years, but I’ve never liked iced coffee-my mom drank it long before it was fashionable.
At the risk of sounding like a child, “ew, yuck, coffee.”
Ok babykins what do you drink in the Am?
Water. On occasion tea, edpecially if I have a cold. Or cocoa if it’s cold and snowy.
But usually just water. An energy drink mid-morning.
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(Jerry Seinfeld voice) Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Water doesn’t taste good to me until lunch time. I mix my protein shake with coffee and that’s breakfast.
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