pyramidon
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From pyramid + -on (after accordion, harmonicon etc.).
Noun
[edit]pyramidon (plural pyramidons)
- (music) An organ stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, giving very deep notes somewhat like those of a stopped diapason. [from 19th c.]
Etymology 2
[edit]From German Pyramidon, corresponding to pyr(azolone) + amid(e) + -on.
Noun
[edit]pyramidon (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A yellowish-white powder used as an antipyretic. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]pyramidon m (uncountable)
- (medicine, now rare) pyramidon
- 1921, Marcel Proust, Le Côté de Guermantes:
- « Elle me donne tous les jours de tels maux de tête que je suis obligée de prendre chaque fois un cachet de pyramidon. »
- "She gives me such bad headaches every day that I have to take a pyramidon tablet every time."
References
[edit]- “pyramidon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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