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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
Example Sentences
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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
Now, I carried always with me in the bosom of my buckskin shirt a carnet, or tablet of good paper, and a pencil given me years ago by Sir William.
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
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 George (George Augustus) Moore
The minister’s carnets will be searched in vain for any traces of the explanations which Mazarin must have had with the Queen during this grave conjuncture.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
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