Tuesday 8 November 2011

Competition time!

Judy Short, one of our governors, loves collecting words and has her own magpie book. Her latest word is dragée. She will give a prize to the first person who tells her the meaning of the word and uses it correctly in a sentence. There will be another prize for the first person who can guess correctly where she read the word. Submit your answers here. Good Luck!

4 comments:

Luke D said...

I found dragee in a french dictionary.

Judy Short said...

You are right that dragee is a French word, but it is also used in English. It's the English meaning that I would like you to find out.

Charlie Good said...

Dragee is a cake decoration.e.g. I put dragee and sprinkles on top of my cake.

Jacob V said...

It is a sugar coated sweet that can go on cakes or eaten as a confectionery eg sugar coated almonds. She would of read the word in a cook book.