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

In 1789 he drew up the first article of the cahier of the electors of the bailliage of Roye, demanding the abolition of feudal rights.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

This, according to Beugnot, was in a rural cahier and he seems to quote from memory.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)

After all he was a wretched hypochondriac, and a tinge of le cahier vert doubtless crept into his eyes.”

From Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader by Manly, Louise

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 more general collection of cahiers than any above named is given in vols. i.-vi. of the Archives parlementaires.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Even in Paris—the stronghold of the Roman faith—the reformed ventured, in face of a vast numerical majority against them, to urge in the Hôtel-de-Ville the insertion of their remonstrances in the "cahiers" of the city.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Most of what the Assembly did had been suggested in the cahiers, and many of its decrees were anticipated by actual revolt.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various