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cachou
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ca·chou  (k-sh, ksh)
n.
A pastille used to sweeten the breath.
[French, from Portuguese cachu, from Malayalam kccu, from Tamil kyccu.]
cachou [ˈkæʃuː kæˈʃuː]
n
1. a lozenge eaten to sweeten the breath
2. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechu
[via French from Portuguese, from Malay kāchu]
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Noun1.cachou - a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)
lozenge - a small aromatic or medicated candy
Translations
cachou
n → Cachou(bonbon) m or nt
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Crowded onto this, alongside gleaming brass scales and weights, were even more jars of sweets, a cornucopia of fruit drops, cachous, sherbet-dips, cinder toffee and so forth .
Childhood memories still sweetest; BOOKLET ADDS TO HISTORY OF NORTH ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Scented Cachous in a fancy glass jar that were so expensive they had to be bought by the once, tiny little black scented sweets called sen-sens that came in a little paper packet,and slightly larger pungent black Imps.
dorinda m cann by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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