lettre de cachet

Definitions of lettre de cachet
  1. noun
    a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal
    synonyms: cachet
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    type of:
    warrant
    a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
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