Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pastille used to sweeten the breath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sweetmeat, generally in the form of a pill, made of the extracts of licorice, cashew-nut, gum, etc., used by tobacco-smokers and others to sweeten the breath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sweet taken to sweeten the breath.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ivan Matveitch noticed that I was tired from playing he would offer me ‘du cachou de Bologne.’
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Pepper, though, was of infinitely more moment to the ancients than to be merely a topping, nostrum, or cachou.
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Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
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As he goes out, I see him slip a cachou or a clove into his mouth. So his breath won't smell of wine, of course.
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1956
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Dye with 20 lb. Amidazol cachou, 5 lb. soda and 200 lb.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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I see the gentleman of the night before, still dressed in his wrapper, brown the color of cachou, who advances majestically, followed by a train of nurses.
Sac-Au-Dos 1907 1877
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India scarves before alluded to; a stomacher set with garnet, a pearl necklace, and a silver box full of cachou and can-away comfits, to be taken to church for amusement during long sermons.
The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Emily Sarah Holt 1864
reesetee commented on the word cachou
A pastille used to sweeten the breath.
February 24, 2007