Status of a revolutionary in court (6)
I believe the answer is:
cachet
'status' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a revolutionary in court' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' becomes 'che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'a'+'che'='ache'
'ache' placed into 'ct' is 'CACHET'.
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for cachet that I've seen before include "(Mark of) distinction" , "Social distinction" , "Distinguishing feature" , "Prestige - seal of approval" , "French prestige or distinguishing mark" .)