Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sugarplum; in pharmacy, a Sugar-coated medicine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun sugar-coated medication.
- noun silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
- noun sugar-coated nut or fruit piece.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
dragée .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy
- noun silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes
- noun sugar-coated nut or fruit piece
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Examples
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The principal grief of the Poilus appeared to be that a shell two or three days before had destroyed the store of the great "dragee"
The White Road to Verdun Kathleen Burke 1922
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These are round sprinkles, a tiny bit larger than your average dragee, that look like small pearls.
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Then I drizzled them with some of that Wilton candy melt stuff and topped each one with a gold dragee ..
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Then I drizzled them with some of that Wilton candy melt stuff and topped each one with a gold dragee ..
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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But, oh, at the moment my praises go to Lisa Simon's gentle scrub and her suchard dragee coloured body cream.
Weekend Beauty - Bath & Body: Confessions of a Bathaholic Marina Geigert 2009
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With the current version 4.0.1 each iTunes Music net curtain purchase can be imported by dragee & drop or audio menu into a film.
Apfel cracks Apple 2004
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With the current version 4.0.1 each iTunes Music net curtain purchase can be imported by dragee & drop or audio menu into a film.
Apfel cracks Apple 2004
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These pharmaceutical compositions may be manufactured in a manner that is itself known, e.g., by means of conventional mixing, dissolving, granulating, dragee-making, levigating, emulsifying, encapsulating, entrapping or lyophilizing processes.
FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/22/2010 2010
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· Extended drop of dragee and functionality: it is now possible tons of dragees of messages as files system wide, bring drop target window in front by dragee-went more over taskable buttons, to import of messages from.
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· (beta) some fixed ton the new drop of dragee and functionality
michael.tremberth commented on the word dragee
Pills supplied by the NHS in UK are rarely sugared these days (though they may still be coated), but the idiom persists. By the way dragee is hardly an alternative spelling to dragée - it is merely the result of using an ill-founded font by non-French typesetters, and is therefore a sin of omission. Wordniks have no excuse for getting it wrong on their computers.
July 15, 2013
bilby commented on the word dragee
Wordniks are erudite enough to recognise the spelling dragee as standard and acceptable. Mainstream English has little to no tolerance of diacritics. Go weep for cafe, uber, etc if you must, but...
July 15, 2013