carnet
Americannoun
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
After we had eaten a bowl of samp I called them around me, shewed them the map I had made in my carnet, told them what I had decided, and invited opinions from everybody.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
That opinion is confirmed by new and numerous particulars with which Mazarin’s carnets and confidential letters furnish us.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
But as they went downstairs together whom should they meet but the dentist qui a oublié ses carnets.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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