What is "cachous"

Usage examples of "cachous".

The house window itself held tier on tier of bottle of sweets receding away from the gaze of the beholder to dim regions beyond, while, balancing on the front of every shelf, were boxes of hearts- and-crosses, sherbet dips, everlasting stripes, scented cachous and jujubes.

It was so near that an odour came off it -- like the odour of cachous from old evening bags, of yellowing dance-programmes, of fox-fur long laid in mothballs.

The house window itself held tier on tier of bottle of sweets receding away from the gaze of the beholder to dim regions beyond, while, balancing on the front of every shelf, were boxes of hearts and-crosses, sherbet dips, everlasting stripes, scented cachous and jujubes.