lettre de cachet

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial. historical
    — I lost my temper, and spoke so irreverently of the Grand Monarque, that the next morning I was sent to the Bastile, by virtue of a Lettre de Cachet.

词形变化

词源

From French lettre de cachet.
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