The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vacher \Va`cher"\, n. [F., from vache a cow. Cf. Vaquero.]
A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.]
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
n. (context US Southwestern English) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Wikipedia
Vacher is a surname of the French origin. Its literal translation means a keeper of stock or cattle or a herdsman but is generally used by people whose ancestry is traced to the cow-herders. It is also used by a small group of people in India. People with the name include:
- Chris Vacher (born 1951), British television news presenter
- Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936), French anthropologist and theoretician of eugenics and racialism
- Joseph Vacher (1869–1898), French serial killer, executed by guillotine
- Laurent-Michel Vacher (1944–2005), French Canadian philosopher, writer, and journalist
- Paul Vacher (before 1936–1975), French perfumer
- Polly Vacher (born 1944), English aviator
- Sydney Vacher (fl. 1886–1890), English architect
- Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–1880), English lithographer, legal stationer, and printer
- William Herbert Vacher (1826–1899), British merchant and banker
- Charles Vacher, (1818–1883), painter in watercolours
Usage examples of "vacher".
It is true that the old, morbid sense of ‘forbiddenness’ gradually leaked away as sex became a subject that could be discussed openly, and that one result was that violent sex crimes - like those of the Ripper and Vacher - became increasingly rare.
We should also note how many sex killers have been tramps or wandering journeymen - for example, Vacher, Tessnow, Seefeld and Panzram.
This gave way to the next level of the hierarchy, the sexual level, and the crimes of Vacher, Pieydagnelle, Jack the Ripper, were a simple expression of frustration on this level, with the violence sharpened by frustration.
Tell me, Vacher, while your colleague was following Aline Bauche, did you stay on duty outside the building?