carnet

American  

[kahr-nay, kar-ne] / kɑrˈneɪ, karˈnɛ /

noun

• carnets
  plural

1. a customs document allowing an automobile to be driven at no cost across international borders.

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carnet British  

/ ˈkɑːneɪ /

noun

1. 1. a customs licence authorizing the temporary importation of a motor vehicle

   2. an official document permitting motorists to cross certain frontiers

2. a book of tickets, travel coupons, etc

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• carnets
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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carnet carnets

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

I was sitting at our two-legged table, writing up my carnet de vol.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

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

We are promised these carnets in the course of "a few weeks," so, until then, you can think of me as, to all intents and purposes, really interned.

From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich

In every page of these invaluable carnets he indicates her as being the head and mainspring of the Importants.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies

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