dragee
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9.9
A small hard candy, often silver, used to decorate cakes and desserts
- noun
- /ˈdrædʒi/
:
dragea
- To make the dessert more appealing, he carefully placed dragees on the chocolate mousse.
- silver dragees
Examples
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The cake was coated in glossy, swirled meringue that had been sprinkled liberally with silver dragees.
Fiction book (1991) -
For the cake decoration, she sprinkled silver dragees all over the frosted surface.
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The baker used colorful dragees to add a festive touch to the birthday cake.
Synonyms
nonpareil
vsdragee
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9.9
A small flat chocolate disk covered with tiny colored sugar beads
is a hard shiny sugar decoration often silver in color rather than chocolate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dragee comes from French dragée, which was a small 'sugar-coated almond' made as a tiny sweet. Think of a shiny little sugar shell used to decorate cakes, so a dragee is a small, hard candy used for decoration.