cachou

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VERB + CACHOU

gave

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noun

1

A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.

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.

2

A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

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

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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