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pilulier.

English translation: container / bottle

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French term or phrase:pilulier.
English translation:container / bottle
Entered by: Anna Maria Augustine (X)

23:20 Jul 19, 2005
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Nutrition / List of organic herbal medicine products
French term or phrase: pilulier.
This is not in the dictionary and it would be bottle or pill box or capsule container, I think, since the tablets are organically grown natural remedies.
TIA for help.

Les comprimés n’étant pas traités, une fine poussière peut se déposer au fond du pilulier.
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 01:54
container / bottle
Explanation:
Either would be OK.
It would sound repetitive and daft in English to repeat "pill" or "tablet" as a qualifier for bottle/container in such a short sentence.

Do a google image search and you'll see loads of them!
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Charlie Bavington
Local time: 00:54
Grading comment
Thanks to both but it is the bottle containing 60 capsules so not for personal use to put your own medication in.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5pillbox / pill organizer
Gina W
4 +1container / bottle
Charlie Bavington


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
pillbox / pill organizer


Explanation:
per Termium

Gina W
United States
Local time: 19:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elizabeth Lyons: Pillbox - This is the most common version of it, imho : )
29 mins
  -> thanks:)
agree  sporran
37 mins
  -> thanks:)
agree  Martine Brault
1 hr
  -> thanks:)
agree  Besmir (X): "Pillbox" definetely, if I were calling it "pill organizer" it wouldn't make me wanna open it every Friday night and take my... vitamins :-)
2 hrs
  -> hmm, thanks! I see what you mean;)
agree  Tony M: Over here in France, I know these as the kind of things where you organize your pills in advance for morning, noon and night for a whole week.
8 hrs
  -> Thanks!:) - right, they're labelled SMTWTFS, and often 3 little compartments per each day, like you said.
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
container / bottle


Explanation:
Either would be OK.
It would sound repetitive and daft in English to repeat "pill" or "tablet" as a qualifier for bottle/container in such a short sentence.

Do a google image search and you'll see loads of them!

Charlie Bavington
Local time: 00:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Thanks to both but it is the bottle containing 60 capsules so not for personal use to put your own medication in.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michele Fauble
5 hrs
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