Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A flavoured candy or sweet, often round and somewhat flat in shape.
2. Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.
3. A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.
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. (transitive) To make into a pastille.
6. (obsolete, art) Nonstandard spelling of pastel (“a crayon made from a type of dried paste; a drawing made using such crayons”).

Example Sentences

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.

In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments.

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

Pastille, Crayon or Chalk on Photograph.

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

Word Forms

• pastilles
• pastil
• pastilling
• pastilled

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Use pastille when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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