Definition of Tache

1. n. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

2. n. A spot, stain, or blemish.

Definition of Tache

1. Noun. moustache ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A spot, stain, or blemish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tache

1. a clasp or buckle [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tache

1. A circumscribed discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane, such as a macule or freckle. Origin: Fr. Spot (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tache

tacahouts
tacamahac
tacamahaca
tacamahacs
tacan
tacans
tacaribe complex viruses
tacaribe virus
tacaud
tace
taces
tacet
tach
tach up
tacharanite
tache (current term)
tache blanche
tache cerebrale
tache laiteuse
tache meningeale
tache noire
tacheometer
tacheometers
taches
tachetic
tachhydrite
tachi-seki
tachiai
tachimochi

Literary usage of Tache

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catholicon anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook, dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1881)
"one tache of sylver gy't' » aleo mentioned Hid. p. 229; and in 1558 Alice Conyers bequeathed 'a ... of sylve crooks and a tache ..."

2. The Canadian Portrait Gallery by John Charles Dent (1881)
"Alexandre Antonin tache, Archbishop of St. Boniface, contained in the third ... Young Etienne tache bore himself as might have been expected from one of his ..."

3. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"... sword and sabre-tache clattering war music at her side, and the old Postman waiting for them, rigid with salutation, at the four cross-roads. ..."

4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"F. tache, a stain. Cf. Ital. tacca, notch, cut, defect, stam ; Port, and Span, tacha, tack, small nail, defect, flaw, crack. Either the sense of nail ' has ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"tache, Alexandra, a Canadian archbishop, born at Kamouraska, Lower Canada, in 1822. He graduated at the college of St. ..."

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