dragée

See also: dragee, Dragee, and Dragée

English

Etymology

From French dragée.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɹæˈʒeɪ/

Noun

dragée (plural dragées)

  1. 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.

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French

FWOTD – 31 January 2015

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/
  • (file)

Noun

dragée f (plural dragées)

  1. 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 !
  2. a dragée, a sugar-coated pill
  3. (slang) a bullet

Descendants

  • Bulgarian: драже (draže)
  • English: dragée
  • Portuguese: drágea
  • Romanian: drajeu
  • Russian: драже́ (dražé)
    • Armenian: դրաժե (draže)
    • Azerbaijani: draje
    • Georgian: დრაჟე (draže)
  • Spanish: gragea, dragea
  • Turkish: draje
  • Ukrainian: драже́ (dražé)

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