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Definition of "pastil" [pas•til]

  • A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room. (noun)
  • An aromatic or medicated lozenge, especially one used to soothe a sore throat; a troche. (noun)
  • See Pastel, a crayon. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "pastil" in a sentence
  • "When she saw that the wine had gotten the better of his senses, she thrust her hand into her bosom and brought out a pastil of virgin"
  • ""Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab," said Aylmer, "and burn a pastil.""
  • "It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder clime -- until she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces."