Pastille

Quick meaning: Pastille is a noun meaning A flavoured candy or sweet, often round and somewhat flat in shape.

Meaning

A flavoured candy or sweet, often round and somewhat flat in shape.

More Meanings

1. Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.
2. A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.
3. (transitive) To make into a pastille.
4. A candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
5. (obsolete, art) Nonstandard spelling of pastel (“a crayon made from a type of dried paste; a drawing made using such crayons”).

Example Sentences

Pastille, Crayon or Chalk on Photograph.

Painting with water color, oil, or pastille, from still life.

Best specimen of fancy painting, pastille, Emily C. Dills, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Watercolors of professional quality come in small pastilles of dry pigment, in pans of semi-moist paint, or in tubes or bottles of liquid watercolor.

Word Forms

• pastilles
• pastil
• pastilling
• pastilled

Synonyms for pastille

Depending on context, synonyms include troche, pastil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include troche, pastil, candy, sugar-plum, lollipop, cordial.

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