drageoir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French drageoir, from dragée +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɹæˈʒwɑː/ (or as French, below)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

drageoir (plural drageoirs)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From dragée +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁa.ʒwaʁ/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Noun

drageoir m (plural drageoirs)

  1. sweet-box, drageoir

Descendants

  • English: drageoir

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

dragee +‎ -oir

Noun

drageoir m (plural drageoirs)

  1. drageoir

Descendants

Further reading

  • drageoir on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)