pastille

noun
🔊/ˈpæstəl/
🔊/pæˈstiːl/
(especially British English)
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  1. 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)含片;含片状药物
    • fruit pastilles果味含片
    • throat pastilles喉片
    Topics Foodc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPastille is used after these nouns:
    • throat
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, from Latin pastillus ‘little loaf, lozenge’, from panis ‘loaf’.