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dragee

dragee is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of dragee

pluraldragees

Questions about dragee

What is dragee the alternative spelling of?
Dragee is the alternative spelling of dragée.

Words near dragee in the dictionary

  1. dragbars
  2. dragboat
  3. dragboats
  4. dragbox
  5. dragboxes
  6. dragee
  7. dragees
  8. drageoir
  9. drageoirs
  10. Drager
  11. Dragers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dragee (page history and authors); dragée (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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