drageoir

Borrowed from French drageoir. Compare dredge.

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

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.

• dragée

• 'roid rage, roid rage

From dragée.

• IPA^(key): /dʁa.ʒwaʁ/

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drageoir m (plural drageoirs)

1. sweet-box, drageoir

• “drageoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.