cachet

By 3000 B.C., cats had secured a solid cultural cachet in ancient Egypt, where they “mediated” between humans and gods, and frequently featured in mummification rituals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Two decades later, the idea that “‘Idiocracy’ was a documentary” has gained cachet in the more self-satisfied corners of the internet.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

At 36, she is still young and will return revived - and with the cachet of having not just won Olympic gold - but dealt with the stresses and strains of that journey.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Gucci is key to Kering's fortunes, but has been in freefall since 2023 as the brand lost its luxury cachet.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Even though none of her genes had apparently been passed down to me, I felt like it gave me a certain cachet among my girlfriends to have the gorgeous mom.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Here are "cachets," "minims," "possets," "epithems;" here advice against "the popular indulgence of biting off blood blisters" and a course of action "on becoming indifferent to the fate of your ship."

From Time Magazine Archive

That arrangement for cachets on stamps and covers to be taken along and postmarked Outer Space.

From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster

Luff recommends the administration over long periods of guaiacol carbonate, in cachets beginning with doses of 5–10 grs. and increased to 15–20 grs. thrice daily.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

President Deschanel ... was compelled to take several analgesia cachets.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 by Various

It is also true that I have always detested despotism, lettres de cachets, and arbitrary imprisonment.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich