drageoir
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.
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
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.