dragée
[ dra-zhey ]
/ dræˈʒeɪ /
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noun
a sugarcoated nut or candy.
a small, beadlike piece of candy, usually silver-colored and used for decorating cookies, cake, and the like.
a sugarcoated medication.
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Origin of dragée
First recorded in 1850–55; from French; Old French dragee, dragie, from Medieval Latin drageia, drageya, dragia “sugar-coated lozenge,” from unrecorded Medieval Greek dragéa for Greek tragḗma “dried fruit eaten as dessert, confection”; see also dredge2
Words nearby dragée
drag artist, drag bunt, drag chain, drag coefficient, drag down, dragée, dragger, dragging, dragging piece, draggle, draggle-tail
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British Dictionary definitions for dragée
dragée
/ (dræˈʒeɪ) /
noun
a sweet made of a nut, fruit, etc, coated with a hard sugar icing
a tiny beadlike sweet used for decorating cakes, etc
a medicinal formulation coated with sugar to disguise the taste
Word Origin for dragée
C19: from French; see dredge ²
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