cahier

American  

[ka-yay, kah-, ka-yay] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of cahier

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

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Example Sentences

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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

But this is not all, nor the principal of my objections to this cahier.

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

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 Louise Manly

Uppermost lay a thick cahier, in which, in Lina's writing, were what at first seemed copies of all the letters she had received from England within the last few months.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 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

It was foreshadowed by the mass of well-considered complaints in the cahiers.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes

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 Henry Martyn Baird

It had already appeared in a number of cahiers.

From The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens by Max Farrand

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