Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small medicated or flavored tablet; a troche.
- n. A tablet containing aromatic substances that is burned to fumigate or deodorize the air.
- n. A pastel paste or crayon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See pastil.
Wiktionary
- n. A soft flavoured candy.
- n. 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.
- n. A small granular half spheroid piece of material.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat
Etymologies
- The sweets are named after Italian confectioner Giovanni Pastilla who made them for Marie de Medici. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Spanish pastilla, perfume pellet, and Italian pastillo, pastille, both from Latin pāstillus, little loaf, medicine tablet, diminutive of pānis, bread. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“- in fabric design, "une pastille" is a large round spot - "un pois" (= pea) being smaller.”
“Scenes taken from mythology were done in what was known as "pastille," composition work raised and painted on a gold background.”
“Noting the four Secret Service guns at the edge of the stage, I took one fearful precaution: having been sucking on lozenges all day (my throat was dry and I was scheduled to sing that night at the Class Cabaret), I gathered a few into my left hand rather than risk the ignominy of being shot down as I reached into my cutaway for a pastille.”
“We offer the pastille in our Entertainment Luxury line because it is multifunctional and great to relax and surf the net while sitting in your game room.”
“But he picked up a Chocorange and read the label on it: sugar-free, healthy, tooth-friendly, it said, only four calories per pastille.”
“The words made their way over my tongue like a sweet pastille of possibility.”
“ "Looks like she ate one," said Mimi, indicating an empty space where the honeybee cream pastille should have been.”
“And because I entered through the happy green door, I don't resent it for being some sort of pastille.”
“And I want a pastille now. *sigh* No more posts about gourmand scents.”
“A standard of the high security, pump Vak is recognized since tens of years by the whole of the profession like a product top-of-the-range, reliable, at important combinative power. 10 throats, key stainless, guard and pastille year Ti-drilling and anti-sawing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pastille’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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rays & x-rays
raised rays
cow-nosed ray, x-ray, roentgenogram, radiogram, sunray, tomograph, whipparee, oxeye, thulium, raster, moonbeam, robinia and 86 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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OED word of the Day
Just like it says
majority, plasm, apal, statin, legerdemain, leap year, daffodil, maternal, key worker, jojoba, skelf, pose and 101 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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My word bucket
The bucket where my words go.
riband, cicerone, phlegmatic, canorous, vicegerent, canting, dilettante, taboret, barouche, precentor, sonant, peregrination and 9 more...
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Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
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candy
mint, bonbon, taffy, sweets, sugarcoat, dragee, fudge, candyfloss, sugarplum, truffle, fondant, comfit and 30 more...
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Inkhorn
Hard words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pastille.
knitandpurl "Two, three, four paces down the hall, past a pastille burner, and Billy steers me to the left into a blue-tiled bathroom."
Forgetting Elena by Edmund White, p 122 of the Vintage International paperback edition Nov 21, 2009
travismcdermott 1451 Corpus Christi Acct. Rolls in A. F. Johnston & M. Rogerson Rec. Early. Eng. Drama: York (1979) I. 78 Item in pane subtili vocato symnell & Pastill vij s x d. Jul 11, 2008