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

The constitutional changes proposed by the formal cahier of the third estate were of an equally radical character.

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

This cahier gives a very full statement of existing judicial abuses.

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

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

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

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

The book proved indeed a delusion and a snare, for of its six hundred pages more than nine tenths pertained to church affairs,—were part and parcel of the cahiers of the clergy.

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

This consisted of voluminous reports called "cahiers" in which the many complaints and grievances of their constituents had been written down.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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