dragéen.
‘A sugar plum or sweetmeat in the centre of which is a drug; intended for the more pleasant administration of medicinal substances’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). In modern use not restricted to sweetmeats serving as a vehicle for drugs; often a sugared almond. Also attributive and transferred.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet
dredgec1350
confection1393
sugar-meat1586
trinket1587
confectionary1599
soot-meat1614
dulcid1694
sweetie1721
goody-goody1745
bon-bon1796
confiture1802
candy?1809
sweetmeat1812
sucker1823
dulce1834
lokum1845
goody1847
sweet1851
dragée1853
lolly1854
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > tablet or lozenge > specific type of tablet or lozenge
sugar-platec1333
sief?1550
dragée1853
palatinoid1890
multivitamin1941
linguet1943
salt tablet1944
multimineral1990
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxi. 48 He was fond of bonbons..and..would give his ‘dragées’ as freely as he lent his books.
1866 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 7 374 A medicine called Cod-liver Dragés.
1870 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 11 543 On the Continent..[they] keep genuine dragées of various strengths..of rhubarb, aloes, and other simple and compound pills.
1905 A. Bennett Sacred & Profane Love iii. iii. 249 Alice wanted to buy him some sweets... I asked him if he would like dragées.
1958 Observer 14 Sept. 11/3 Make-up in delicate dragée tones.
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