HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sachet
/sæˈʃeɪ/
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sa-SHAY: stress the ending.
The ch sounds like sh, and the final t is silent. A first-syllable-stressed pronunciation is also recorded in the dictionary.
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“She tucked a lavender sachet into the drawer.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does sachet mean?
noun
- A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri.
- A cheesecloth bag of herbs or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving.
- A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material.
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IPA pronunciation
/sæˈʃeɪ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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When she sighed she exhaled a heavy perfume of sachet powder.
The air was full of varied smells--the smell of stale cigars, of flat beer, of orange peel, of gas, of sachet powders, and of cheap perfumery.
More book examples (2)
She sat still; she did not even brush to the floor the fantastic thing that lay in her lap, and that sent up faintly the odour of the sachet powder with which Irene liked to perfume her boxes.
“A sachet. A little blue silk bag of orris-root powder. There was a whole counterful of them, marked down to fifty cents. I’d never seen any before, and they seemed irresistible. I took one up and wandered about the store with it. Nobody seemed to notice, so I carried it off.”