sachet
See also: Sachet
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French sachet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsæʃeɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsæʃeɪ/, /sæˈʃeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: sashay
- Rhymes: -æʃeɪ, -eɪ
Noun
sachet (plural sachets)
- A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri.
- (cooking) A cheesecloth bag of herbs and/or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving.
- A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material.
- My burger arrived with a plastic sachet of tomato ketchup.
- 2019 January 15, Christopher Joyce, “A New Weapon In The War Against Plastic Waste”, in npr[1]:
- In the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, the problem was compounded by a new kind of plastic packaging that took flight in the 1980s — the sachet. It was a plastic pouch but often bulked up with layers of aluminum or paper for shape or durability. […] Sachets are cheap, flashy and convenient.
Derived terms
Translations
cheesecloth bag of herbs and/or spices
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small, sealed packet
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Further reading
Anagrams
- Scheat, she-cat, taches, cheats, scathe, stache, achest, chaste, he-cats, 'stache, chates, thecas, 'taches, e-chats
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ.ʃɛ/
Audio; /sɑˈʃɛt/: (file) - Hyphenation: sa‧chet
Noun
sachet n (plural sachets, diminutive sachetje n)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: saset
French
Etymology
From sac + -et, with palatalization of c.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.ʃɛ/
Noun
sachet m (plural sachets)
- (small) bag
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “sachet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
sachet n (plural sachete)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | sachet | sachetul | sachete | sachetele | |
| genitive-dative | sachet | sachetului | sachete | sachetelor | |
| vocative | sachetule | sachetelor | |||
References
- sachet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN