0 a quality that marks someone or something as special and worth respect and admiration:
1 a quality of someone or something that makes it especially attractive or admirable:
In contrast, demonstrations of norm violation are protected from ridicule, and may even gain a cachet of urgency and truth.
Being from out of town apparently carried with it a certain cachet and usually resulted in higher payment.
In an era of mass-produced goods, the riding habit held a special cachet as one of the last bastions of bespoke tailoring.
He has not got the cachet of a literary reputation.
Although organically produced food currently has the greatest cachet, some predict that locally and sustainably grown products may become as desirable.
In the context of court politics, these allegations must have functioned as a useful proto lettre de cachet for the king to draw on as required.
A critical aspect of retiree attraction programmes is luring the ' right ' sort of seniors, meaning the affluent and comfortable middle class with the appropriate cultural cachet.
They believe that if the postman brings the material, that little extra cachet of authority will be brought with it.