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A lozenge with better PR — same cough drop, fancier French accent.
means A small flavored or medicated lozenge meant to dissolve slowly in the mouth.
from From French pastille, borrowed from Latin pastillus, meaning 'little loaf' or 'small roll of dough' — itself a diminutive related to panis, 'bread.' The word originally described small compressed shapes (including scented tablets burned as incense) before it narrowed to the sweet or medicinal disc we suck on today.
- origin
- from Latin pastillus, meaning little loaf
- original use
- medicinal, often disguising foul-tasting drugs
- texture tell
- soft and chewy, unlike hard-shell lozenges
- modern life
- now mostly candy pretending to be medicine