Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small packet of perfumed powder used to scent clothes, as in trunks or closets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small bag, usually embroidered or otherwise ornamented, containing a perfume in the form of powder, or some perfumed substance; also, a small cushion or some similar object, the stuffing of which is strongly perfumed, placed among articles of dress, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A cheesecloth bag of herbs and/or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving.
- n. A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, diminutive of sac, bag, from Latin saccus; see sack1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In what came to be called the "sachet revolution," products such as toothpaste, hair oil, skin cream and cooking oil took on the same packaging.”
The Washington Post: Villages set to expand India's consumer market
“Desuasio said Mejia denied the sachet was his and claimed he was set up.”
“Nasuta sab nga nag-away ang biktima ug ang iyang bana sa wa masayring rason hinungdan nga gikuha sa biktima ang usa ka sachet sa Clorox ug dayon gisagol sa alcohol ug gilala.”
Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
“This fungicide is contained within a sachet which is placed inside the sofas in order to protect against mould during storage, transit and everyday usage.”
“Every day, when George came home from his work, he found some new article completed, and was ravished by the scent of some new kind of sachet powder.”
Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author
“sachet" at a comparable unit cost when they need it.”
“It's a kind of sachet, I guess; I'd like to know what it is.”
“In Indonesia, the critical price point is 1,000 rupiah per sachet of tea, milk or coffee.”
The Wall Street Journal: Global Food Firms Stir Local Ingredients
“But we also have distribution in the [open] markets in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, where consumers come in and buy a sachet of red or white pepper for a couple of [renminbi].”
The Wall Street Journal: McCormick Spices Up Its Product Line for Home Cooks
“But researchers now say the rural consumer has moved beyond the sachet.”
The Washington Post: Villages set to expand India's consumer market
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sachet’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Perfumery
perfume, perfumer, aromachologist, fougère, le nez, civet, perfumer's organ, Tapputi, Eau de Cologne, eau de toilette, eau de perfume, eaux and 92 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Shopping From Home (For Words)
The list begins with evocative words I found in a Bed Bath & Beyond catalog, but other words in a similar vein are welcome, with two simple rules: they must come out of catalogs, and they can't...
sconce, mercer, urn, crock, pique, taffeta, chenille, ensemble, crescent, flocked, stockpot, microfiber and 40 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words I have to learn
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Ironweed
Words gathered while reading Ironweed by William Kennedy.
asteraceae, brogan, gravid, gandy, advent, slithy, dipso, flinty, suspire, henna, heller, nutsy and 90 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Bags baby, bags
Bags, bags, bags
They're very useful things
If we didn't have bags
What would we use
To put all our things in.backpack, satchel, haversack, shopping, messenger, calico, duffel, burlap sack, tea, handbag, briefcase, sleeping and 5 more...
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Descriptives from the fantasy novel "...
The character of Smoky Barnable -- fabulous name! -- comes to marry into an eccentric & otherworldly family. The author, John Crowley, introduces you into an almost-forgotten age of handmade splend...
macadam, sclerotic, ganglia, mullion, seraphic, evanescence, tattersall, beaux-arts, trellis, hassock, figured coverlet, phthisical and 66 more...
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The Octopus
Words gleaned from Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus
deerhound, diapason, thitherward, chitter, unsteady, wiper, overspire, inanition, sheen, hiccough, quirt, broncho and 44 more...
Tweets
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yarb The aroma of new-sawn timber and sawdust began to be mingled with the feminine odour of sachet and flowers.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 5 Aug 15, 2008