cachou

Definitions

1. A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
2. A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.”

“But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like⟳ violet, a synthetic smell⟳, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink.”

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