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Examples
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Pick from any flavour of cake base, and have it decorated with sparkling cachous and a real chocolate easter egg!
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Hundreds and thousands are tiny, matte coloured sugar balls, much smaller than dragees/cachous.
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One potential hazard with using silver cachous, I've noticed is that they're damn hard and you can easily break a tooth on one!
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I always love seeing cachous, especially since I used to snitch from my Mother's baking cupboard.
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The pink of the icing and the glittery cachous are lovely additions to the dense chocolate.
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Phial of cachous, kissing comfits, in her satchel.
Ulysses 2003
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She held the cachous between the thumb and forefinger of her left hand, and when the doctor removed the packet, some of the sweets spilled to the ground.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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Somehow she still holds on to her packet of cachous.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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In her left hand was a paper packet of cachous, or sweets used to freshen the breath; a corsage of maidenhair fern and a red rose was pinned to her breast.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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Phial of cachous, kissing comfits, in her satchel.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
ruzuzu commented on the word cachous
Cuckoo.
September 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word cachous
You are the walrus?
September 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word cachous
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
September 22, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word cachous
“I am the walrusser.”
September 22, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word cachous
But who is the carpenter?
That is the magical missed-story atour!
Lennon later explained:
"It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? Sings, laughing 'I am the carpenter....'" - wikipedia
September 23, 2011