Placidyl

English

Etymology

Marketing name, apparently from placid +‎ -yl.

Noun

Placidyl (countable and uncountable, plural Placidyls)

1. (pharmacology) Trade name of ethchlorvynol, a sedative.
   • 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 151:

     His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four.