drageoir
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French drageoir, from dragée + -oir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɹæˈʒwɑː/ (or as French, below)
- Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
drageoir (plural drageoirs)
- A box for sweets.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 237:
- Wordlessly, Johanna handed me two E capsules from a little gold drageoir.
Related terms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
drageoir m (plural drageoirs)
- sweet-box, drageoir
Descendants
- → English: drageoir
Further reading
- “drageoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle French
Etymology
Noun
drageoir m (plural drageoirs)
Related terms
Descendants
- French: drageoir
Further reading
- drageoir on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)