drageoir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French drageoir. Compare dredge.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɹæˈʒwɑː/ (or as French, below)

Noun

drageoir (plural drageoirs)

A box for sweets.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001), page 237:
  Wordlessly, Johanna handed me two E capsules from a little gold drageoir.

Anagrams

'roid rage, roid rage

French

Etymology

From dragée.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʁaʒwaʁ/

Noun

drageoir m (plural drageoirs)

sweet-box, drageoir

Further reading

“drageoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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