ca・chouの英語

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæʃuː/
• Homophone: cashew

名詞

cachou (plural cachous)

1. A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20:

     Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.

   • 1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man‎, New York: Viking, page 347:

     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.

2. A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

同意語

• catechu

参考

• cachou de Laval

アナグラム

• caucho