cachou

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Pronunciation

/ˈkæʃuː/

Definition of cachou

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.

“Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.”
“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.”

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noun

A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.

“Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.”
“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.”
A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).

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