gazette

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gazette/ɡəˈzet/

▶noun

• 1 a journal or newspaper, especially the official one of an organization or institution.

• 2 historical a news-sheet.

▶verb Brit. announce or publish in an official gazette.

■ publish the fact of the appointment of (someone) to a military or other official post.

– origin C17: via Fr. from Ital. gazzetta, orig. Venetian gazeta de la novità ‘a halfpennyworth of news’ (with ref. to a news-sheet sold for a gazeta, a Venetian coin of small value).