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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
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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