Crossword clues for cahier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cahier \Ca`hier"\ (k[.a]`y[asl]" or k[.a]`h[=e]r), n. [F., fr. OF. cayer, fr. LL. quaternum. See Quire of paper. The sheets of manuscript were folded into parts.]
A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"exercise book," c.1845, from French cahier "writing book, copy-book," from Old French cayer, originally quaier "sheet of paper folded in four" (see quire).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. 2 A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Usage examples of "cahier".
A biographical sketch in the journal Cahiers du Cinema asserted that his father, a worker in a textile plant and a militant antifascist, was killed in that city during the fiercest street fighting of the civil war.