cachou
/ˈkæʃuː/
cachou noun: a sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
Noun
cachou (plural cachous)
- A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
- Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20
- But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like violet, a synthetic smell, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink.1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 347
- A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.
Synonyms of cachou
Forms of cachou
| plural | cachous |
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Origin of cachou
From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).
Questions about cachou
- What does cachou mean?
- Cachou means a sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
- What part of speech is cachou?
- Cachou is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cachou?
- Cachou is pronounced /ˈkæʃuː/.
- What is the plural of cachou?
- The plural of cachou is cachous.
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