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The French word cachette is referenced in these books:
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The French word cachette is referenced in these books:
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The French word cachette is referenced in these books:
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The French word cachette is referenced in these books:
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The French word cachette is referenced in these books:
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The place generally selected for a cachette is a swell in the prairie, sufficiently elevated to be protected from any kind of inundation, and the arrangement is so excellent, that it is very seldom that the traders lose any thing in their cachette, either by the Indians, the changes of the climate, or the natural dampness of the earth.
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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The place generally selected for a cachette is a swell in the prairie, sufficiently elevated to be protected from any kind of inundation, and the arrangement is so excellent, that it is very seldom that the traders lose anything in their cachette, either by the Indians, the changes of the climate, or the natural dampness of the earth.
Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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Saturday farmers 'market, where I spied him from my cachette* (behind the salad stand salt-and-peppered with roquette).
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But he was made for letters; he hated manual labour and he presently removed en cachette to Paris, where he knew only an ancient kinswoman.
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Expressions: en cachette = on the sly, secretly en cachette de quelqu'un = behind someone's back
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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