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Dragée
Dragée
dragée
dragée
English
Noun
dragée (plural dragées)
- A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
- 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 129:
- I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.
- 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 129:
Translations
a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French dragie, via Latin tragēmata, from Ancient Greek τραγήματα (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”), plural of τράγημα (trágēma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʁa.ʒe/
Noun
dragée f (plural dragées)
- a sweet with almond filling
- 1923, Gustave Fraipont, Les Vosges:
- […] mais quel pavage désagréable ! je le recommande aux gens qui ont les pieds sensibles ! on dirait des dragées et des pralines posées sur un champ... Aïe !
- 1923, Gustave Fraipont, Les Vosges:
- a dragée, a sugar-coated pill
- (slang) a bullet
Descendants
- Bulgarian: драже (draže)
- English: dragée
- Portuguese: drágea
- Romanian: drajeu
- Russian: драже́ (dražé)
- Armenian: դրաժե (draže)
- Azeri: draje
- Georgian: დრაჟე (draže)
- Turkish: draje
- Ukrainian: драже́ (dražé)