dragée
[ dra-zhey ]
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.
Origin of dragée
1First 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
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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
Origin of dragée
1C19: from French; see dredge ²
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