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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: lettre de cachet (0.00801 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lettre de cachet
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
[syn:
cachet]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Lettre de cachet
Cachet
\Cach"et\, n. [F. fr. cacher to hide.]
A seal, as of a letter.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] ||
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