Usually means: Royal order for arbitrary imprisonment.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word lettre de cachet:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. lettre de cachet: Merriam-Webster
  2. lettre de cachet: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lettre de cachet: Vocabulary.com
  4. lettre-de-cachet, lettre de cachet: Wordnik
  5. lettre de cachet: Wiktionary
  6. Lettre de cachet, lettre de cachet: Dictionary.com
  7. Lettre de cachet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. lettre de cachet: Rhymezone
  9. Lettre de Cachet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. lettre de cachet: FreeDictionary.org
  11. lettre de cachet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. lettre de cachet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lettre de cachet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lettre de cachet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lettre de cachet: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See lettres_de_cachet as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lettre de cachet)

noun:  (now historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.

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