dragée

[ dra-zhey ]

noun
  1. a sugarcoated nut or candy.

  2. a small, beadlike piece of candy, usually silver-colored and used for decorating cookies, cake, and the like.

  1. a sugarcoated medication.

Origin of dragée

1
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

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British Dictionary definitions for dragée

dragée

/ (dræˈʒeɪ) /


noun
  1. a sweet made of a nut, fruit, etc, coated with a hard sugar icing

  2. a tiny beadlike sweet used for decorating cakes, etc

  1. a medicinal formulation coated with sugar to disguise the taste

Origin of dragée

1
C19: from French; see dredge ²

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