It's the Word of the Day podcast for November 15th.

Today's word is cachet, spelled C-A-C-C-H-E-T.

Cache is a noun.

It's used as a synonym of the word prestige to refer to the respect and admiration someone or

something receives for being successful or important. It can also be used to refer to a characteristic

feature or quality that confers such prestige. Here's the word used in a sentence from the Rob

Report by Abby Montanez.

This 175-year-old real-life castle in Northern Ireland has real historical cachet.

If you're looking for a catchy word to add to your vocabulary, why not give your stamp of

approval to the word cachet? After all, this term is borrowed directly from French,

a language which has long held a certain cachet in English.

Formal and fancy-sounding English words often have a French pedigree,

evidence of the prestige bestowed on the language.

In French, cachet, which comes from the middle French

verb, cachet, meaning to press, refers to an official seal pressed into soft wax and used on

formal and legal documents. The seal sense of cachet has been used in English since the 17th century,

and in the 19th century, the word started

acquiring its extended senses, first referring to a feature or quality conferring prestige,

and by century's end, to prestige itself. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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