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Definition of Dragee

1. Noun. Silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes.

2. Noun. Sugar-coated nut or fruit piece.

3. Noun. Pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy.

Definition of Dragee

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dragée) ¹

2. Noun. A sweet or confection, originally as used to administer drugs, medicine etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dragee

1. a sugarcoated candy [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dragee

1. A sugar-coated pill or capsule. Origin: Fr. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragee

drag queens drag race drag racer drag racers drag races drag racing drag rope drag sail drag sails drag strip

drag the chain drag through the mud drag up dragbar dragbars dragee (current term) dragees drageoir drageoirs draggable

dragge dragged dragged on dragger draggers draggier draggiest dragging dragging on dragging the chain

Literary usage of Dragee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"dragee d'attrape, catch nut. Donner une dragee d'attrape, to hoax. (Fig.) La dragee est amere, the pill is biller — it is hard to swallow. ..."

2. The Manufacture of Preserved Foods and Sweetmeats: A Handbook of All the by A. Hausner (1902)
"The chocolate- and the dragee-preparation are mixed in the finest powder, ... The dragee-preparation, dyed a pale red and mixed with strawberry essence, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"(A.-N.) dragee. A small comfit. (A.-N.) " A dragee of the ... Same as dragee, qv DRAGGING-TIME. The evening of a fair-day, when the wenches are pulled about ..."

4. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"•A dragee of the ... Palsgrave has ' Cara- wayes, small confetes, dragee? anil Cotgrave ' dragee, f. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"(A.-N.) dragee. A small comfit. (A.-N.) " A dragee of the ... Same as dragee, qv DRAGGING-TIME. The evening of a fair-day, when the wenches are pulled about ..."

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