cachou
English
Etymology
French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu ‘type of acacia’.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkæʃuː/
Noun
cachou (plural cachous)
- A sweet taken to sweeten the breath.
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- 1916: Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper. - James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 20)
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