carnet
Americannoun
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carnets
plural
noun
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a customs licence authorizing the temporary importation of a motor vehicle
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an official document permitting motorists to cross certain frontiers
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a book of tickets, travel coupons, etc
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Etymology
Origin of carnet
1895–1900; < French: notebook, book of tickets; Middle French quernet, equivalent to quern- (compare quaer (with loss of n ) group of four sheets; see cahier) + -et -et
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A carnet is a export/import document for transporting goods and professional equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022
The government said in June that artists wouldn't need a carnet when travelling with their instruments.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2021
Another obstacle touring musicians could face is having to pay for a permit, known as a carnet, for every instrument they take into Europe - to prove they are not trading them internationally.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2019
A carnet currently costs £325.96, but that’s not the end of it: it requires the holder to list everything they take into a country.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2019
He had gone on his knees, held back from my feet by the Oneida; and his poltroonery so sickened me that I could scarce see what I wrote down in my carnet.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
As well as carnets, musicians will need visas, too.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2019
Weigl offered Fleck and his associates a modicum of protection by getting them carnets that identified them as workers in the German Army’s typhus institute.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
Unfortunately the brand-name is here printed as "moleskin", which conjured nightmarish visions of thousands of biomedically engineered rodents slaughtered to feed the maître's obsession with his carnets.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
M. Lacaze and I copied the most striking features in our carnets; he taking the right or southern side and leaving the other block to me.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
One has only to open his Memoirs to see confirmed, point by point, all the particulars with which Mazarin’s carnets are filled.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
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