As buying cheap has become synonymous with smart shopping, almost-new merchandise has also gained new cachet.

And punk destroyed any hopes that prog might have harbored of gaining cachet to match its elevated ambitions.

It is gaining cachet with realtors, developers and lenders.

Appeal to Corporate Clients The area continues to gain corporate cachet.

"Vampires" quickly gained cachet as a hip downtown novelty no more threatening than a Ken Russell musical.

Personal shoppers gained cachet in the mid-1980's, at a time when many stores had cut back on their wide range of designers and services.

This is not necessarily a disadvantage in gaining intellectual cachet or establishing academic legitimacy.

Given these and other successes, the study of the biology of violence has lately gained new credibility and cachet.

Then in the Middle Ages, it suddenly gained cachet.

Cooking gained cachet in the late 1970's and early 80's as many Americans were discovering new and different cuisines, but the fad has passed.