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Lettre de cachet

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial. historical

    "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."

  2. 2
    a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal wordnet

Etymology

From French lettre de cachet.

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