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sacheted en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌsæˈʃeɪd/

Etymology

From sachet + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Scented with a sachet or sachets (of potpourri or other fragrant material).
    • In the desk drawer, a sacheted cache of letters stamped with flags, with heroes, birds or flowers. 2002, Alfred Corn, “Memory”, in Contradictions, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, page 4:
    • As for Miss Meadows, she was loud and jubilant in her praises of the violet water, the bath-herbs, the sacheted dress-hangers, the tape towels, and the cheval-glass with which her room was furnished. 1906, Gelett Burgess, chapter 7, in A Little Sister of Destiny, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 208:
    • Aunt Primrose took a little sacheted handkerchief from her bosom and touched it to her lips, and a tear began to run down Aunt Jim Allen’s dry, rice-powdered cheek. 1946, Eudora Welty, chapter 2, in Delta Wedding, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., pages 48–49:
    • I mastered the art of crocheting and tatting, and there was a lifetime’s supply of dainty doilies that would never be used in sacheted dresser drawers. 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 87: