Meaning & use
Dragees
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Small, hard, sugar-coated candies or edible decorative balls, often used to top cakes and pastries, or a sugar-coated medicinal pill.
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The bakery scattered silver dragees over the top of the wedding cake.
In France, dragées, traditionally almonds coated in hardened sugar, are given out at christenings and weddings.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, where 'dragée' originally referred to sugar-coated almonds given as favors at celebrations.
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