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cachou en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkæʃuː/

Etymology

From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).

Meanings

1. A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
   • Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper. 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20:
   • 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. 1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 347:
2. A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

Forms

Relateds

cachou de Laval

Synonyms

catechu