cachette
English
Noun
cachette (plural cachettes)
- A hidden nook; a hiding place.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 49:
- The dwarf plucked the bird from its cachette, throttled it with a twist of his knotty hands, and held it up for the gunman to admire.
- 2009, Charles Harrison, An Introduction to Art:
- A further twenty-six well-preserved statues were discovered in 1989 where they had been buried in a cachette under the floor of the temple.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 49:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʃɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Further reading
- “cachette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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