pastille
noun/ˈpæstəl/
/pæˈstiːl/
(especially British English)- a small sweet that you eat by keeping it in your mouth, especially one that tastes of fruit or that contains medicine for a sore throat (= a painful throat because of an infection)
- fruit pastilles
- throat pastilles
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPastille is used after these nouns:- throat
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, from Latin pastillus ‘little loaf, lozenge’, from panis ‘loaf’.Definitions on the go
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