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dragées

dragées is the plural of dragée.

Meaning of dragée

Noun

dragée (plural dragées)

  1. A sweet or confection with a hard outer shell, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
    • I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 129

Questions about dragées

What is dragées the plural of?
Dragées is the plural of dragée.

Words near dragées in the dictionary

  1. Draguvite
  2. Draguvites
  3. dragway
  4. dragways
  5. dragée
  6. dragées
  7. Draheim
  8. Draheims
  9. Drahichyn
  10. Drahos
  11. Drahoses

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