pastille
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /pæsˈtil/
pastille (plural pastilles)
- A soft flavoured sweet/candy.
- A medicinal pill, originally compressed herbs. A throat pastille is a large candy-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases oils to soothe a sore throat and sometimes vapors to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
- A small granular half-spheroid piece of material.
- A small cone of charcoal and aromatic substances, burned either as incense, or as a means of diffusing an agreeable odour.
- A paper tube containing a firework that causes a small wheel to rotate in burning.
- (art, obsolete) Alternative form of pastel#English|pastel
- (medicinal pill) lozenge
- pastillation
- pastillator
- German: Pastille
- Russian: табле́тка
- French: pastille
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