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Webster 1913 Edition
Cachou
Caˊchou′
,Noun.
[F. See
Cashoo
.] A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
Definition 2024
cachou
cachou
English
Noun
cachou (plural cachous)
- A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback), page 20:
- Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback), page 20: