PASTILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pastille mean? 

• PASTILLE (noun)
  The noun PASTILLE has 1 sense:

1. a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat

  Familiarity information: PASTILLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cough drop; pastil; pastille; troche

Hypernyms ("pastille" is a kind of...):

lozenge (a small aromatic or medicated candy)

 Context examples 

While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No,—I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)