cahier

American  

[ka-yey, kah-, ka-yey] / kæˈjeɪ, kɑ-, kaˈjeɪ /

noun

• cahiers
  plural

1. Bookbinding. a number of sheets of paper or leaves of a book placed together, as for binding.

2. a report of the proceedings of any body.

   A cahier of the committee was presented to the legislature.

3. (italics)

   1. notebook; exercise book; journal.

   2. paperback book.

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cahier British  

/ kaje /

noun

1. a notebook

2. a written or printed report, esp of the proceedings of a meeting

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cahiers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cahier

1835–45; < French; Middle French quaer gathering (of sheets of a book); see quire ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cahier cahiers

Meanwhile, messages come in from other hotels I have stayed at: no, we don’t have your pink cahier.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2017

“They had sections by Bill Cunningham, where he’d do a whole cahier of the shows and people’s looks on the street,” he told me.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016

Nantes was sending fifty delegates to the assembly of Rennes which was to select the deputies to the Third Estate and edit their cahier of grievances.

From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

"Donnez-moi votre cahier," said I to Eulalie in an abrupt tone; and bending over, I took it before she had time to give it.

From The Professor by Charlotte Brontë

But where is the cahier of the third estate?

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

The public could send in comments online, or write them in cahiers de doléances—grievance books, inspired by ones used during the Revolution.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

In the bookstore, when I ask with my bad French, “Ou est ma cahier?” the man looks around at a thousand cahiers and just looks confused.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2017

A code of civil law which should be established uniformly throughout the realm was very generally demanded in the cahiers of 1789, and such a code was specifically promised in the constitution of 1791.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

The same cahiers sometimes expressed a wish that the power of the king should be limited by a Constitution defining his rights and those of the nation.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon

These were summarized into three cahiers for each province, and eventually into three, one from each order, for all France, and these last three were in due course presented to Louis XVI.

From The French Revolution A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston