Gazette
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- For specific non-governmental newspapers, see The Gazette.
- For the J-rock band, Gazette, see Gazette (band).
A gazette is a newspaper. In the governments of Commonwealth countries a gazette is more specifically an official government paper that publishes all new laws and government decisions.
The word comes from gazet, a Venetian coin that was the cost of many early Italian newspapers, and became a name for the papers themselves. This word was borrowed into English to also describe a newspaper. The word came to be used for an official government paper with the creation of the London Gazette in 1665.
The word gazette is also used as a verb, see for more information Gazetted.
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