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drageoir

drageoir

English

Noun

drageoir (plural drageoirs)

  1. A box for sweets.
    • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001), page 237:
      Wordlessly, Johanna handed me two E capsules from a little gold drageoir.

Anagrams


French

Etymology

From dragée.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁaʒwaʁ/

Noun

drageoir m (plural drageoirs)

  1. sweet-box, drageoir