Why this word is great
CACHETTE — [Noun] A hidden nook; a hiding place. From the French cachette, diminutive of cache ("hiding place"), from cacher ("to hide"). Unlike "lair" (which implies an animal's den or a villain's secret base) or "abri" (which suggests shelter from harm), a cachette is simply a place of concealment, small and unassuming. It is the hollow behind the loose brick where a child stashes a marble, the gap beneath the floorboards where love letters yellow with age, or the shadowed alcove in a library where one might vanish for an hour—a modest sanctuary for things, or selves, meant to go unseen.