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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.
  3. a sugarcoated medication.


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
  3. a medicinal formulation coated with sugar to disguise the taste
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dragée1

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”; dredge 2( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dragée1

C19: from French; see dredge ²
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Example Sentences

Milla’s full line is available in the new shop, including Kir Royale bon bons, pistachio-mesquite dragée and chocolate-dipped orange chips using Santa Monica Farmers Market citrus.

Then in the late 19th Century, a new process called panning gave birth to a sweet covered in a sugar shell called a dragée - pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable and a soft g.

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