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‖ cahier|kaje|
[F., in OF. quaier: see quire.]
1. ‘A book of loose sheets tacked together; whence, reports of proceedings contained in such a book’. More usually, an exercise-book, pamphlet, or fascicle.
c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xvi. 271 Her eyes were fastened on the cahier open before her. 1849in Smart (Supp.); whence in Worcester, Webster, etc. 1909E. Nesbit Daphne iii. 37 You can divide my school books and cahiers among you. 1958N. & Q. Nov. 488/1 A cahier is being prepared in commemoration of the centenary of Eleanora Duse's birth. 1964E. Bowen Little Girls i. ii. 24 He returned his cahier to it ostentatiously.
2. Hist. The instructions prepared by each of the three representative bodies as a guide for their policy at the National Assembly of 1789 in France.
1789A. Young Travels 27 June (1929) i. 162 These cahiers being instructions given to their deputies, I have now gone through them all. 1805Edin. Rev. VI. 152 Busily employed in preparing the cahiers or instructions for the direction of their deputies. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 597/1 Early in 1789 all France was busy with the elections to the States-General, and in drawing up the cahiers, or papers of grievances. 1887Lecky Eng. in 18th Cent. V. xx. 430 The cahiers of the clergy showed a frank willingness to surrender all privileges. |
