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Placidyl en · NOUN

Etymology

Marketing name, apparently from placid + -yl.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Trade name of ethchlorvynol, a sedative.
   • His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four. 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 151:

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