drageoir
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French drageoir. Compare dredge.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
drageoir (plural drageoirs)
- A box for sweets.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 237:
- Wordlessly, Johanna handed me two E capsules from a little gold drageoir.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dragée.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
drageoir m (plural drageoirs)
- sweet-box, drageoir
Further reading[edit]
- “drageoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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