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pastille

 
Dictionary: pas·tille   (pă-stēl') pronunciation
also pas·til (păs'tĭl)
n.
  1. A small medicated or flavored tablet; a troche.
  2. A tablet containing aromatic substances that is burned to fumigate or deodorize the air.
  3. A pastel paste or crayon.

[French, from Spanish pastilla, perfume pellet, and Italian pastillo, pastille, both from Latin pāstillus, little loaf, medicine tablet, diminutive of pānis, bread.]


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Food and Nutrition: pastille
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Round, flat sweet, often coated with sugar, sometimes medicated.

[pas-TEEL] A small, round, hard confection made of sugar, water and various flavorings. In the United States pastilles are usually referred to as drops, as in lemon drops.

Wikipedia: Pastille
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A pastille was originally a pill shaped lump of compressed herbs, which was burnt to release its medicinal properties. Pastilles were in widest use during the eighteenth century, and have never really made a comeback. Today, "pastille" can also refer to a medicinal pill or flavored candy, or to any kind of incense. References to the burning of medicinal pastilles include the short story "Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the poem "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning, and the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. They are also mentioned in the novel McTeague by Frank Norris, when the title character's wife burns them to mask an unpleasant odor in the couple's rooms.

A pastille is also known as a "troche", or a medicated lozenge that dissolves like candy.

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Translations: Pastille
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pastil, røgelsespastil, pastelfarve

Nederlands (Dutch)
pastille (snoepje/ reukwerk)

Français (French)
n. - pastille

Deutsch (German)
n. - Pastille

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παστίλια, ταμπλέτα

Italiano (Italian)
pasticca

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pastilha (f)

Русский (Russian)
пастилка, вкусная таблетка

Español (Spanish)
n. - pastilla

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tablett

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
锭剂, 芳香重剂含药, 粉蜡笔

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 錠劑, 芳香重劑含藥, 粉蠟筆

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 선향, 정제, 파스텔

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 薬用ドロップ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قرص سكري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮טבלית למציצה, טבלית‬


 
 

 

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