Meaning & use
Dragée
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A small, hard, sugar-coated candy or decorative confection, often used to decorate cakes and pastries.
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The wedding cake was topped with silver dragées.
She sprinkled colorful dragées over the cookies before baking.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French; also refers to a medicated pill coated in sugar in some contexts.
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