The phrase "a carnet" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a type of travel document or a book of tickets, often used in customs or for temporary importation of goods.
Example: "Before traveling to France, I made sure to obtain a carnet to facilitate the temporary import of my camera equipment."
Alternatives: "a pass" or "a ticket booklet".
A Carnet de Passage is essential.
To get booze from the bar involves buying a carnet of tickets.
Buy a carnet of 10 metro tickets to save on single journeys.
Incidentally, a carnet is the only way to get child reductions (10 for €6.25) for the Metro.
Patience is also required to build up a carnet of addresses of the specialty shops fast disappearing from most places, enterprises like the venerable stationer F. Pettinaroli.
Single tickets for journeys within the Paris boundaries cost €1.70, but a carnet of 10 tickets for €12.70 is more economical.
While one franchise, C2C, introduced potential savings for flexible workers this year through a carnet-style scheme on its smartcard, the Department for Transport has not yet mandated train companies to develop part-time tickets.
Overland tourists who enter Nepal via lan (via these entry points) must posses an international carnet or complete custom formalities.
Madagascar, a Journey Diary (Madagascar, carnet de voyage, France) Madagascar, a Journey Diary is an impressionistic travelogue about a journey to the island of Madagascar and specifically to a remote village where the filmmaker, Bastien Dubois, attends an unusual ritual, Famadihana, in which the local people exhume the corpses of their ancestors.
The world of the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the schizophrenic have been explored in pictures as different as Pabst's Secret of a Soul, Duvivier's Carnet de Bal, and Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, and numerous films have tried to present a narrative through a single pair of eyes.
Equally delightful is Bastien Dubois's "Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage," a tour of that island nation that is like a documentary composed in watercolors, full of music, detail and a traveler's sense of adventure.
