cachou
noun/ˈkæʃuː/
Etymology From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).
1
A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
- Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20:
- 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.1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 347:
2
A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.
- Synonyms
- catechu
- Related terms
- cachou de Laval