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noun Canadian chiefly Montreal.

ice placed in a drink to cool it.

RELATED WORDS

waxy, glistening, shimmering, radiant, dazzling, sparkling, glowing, gleaming, incandescent, polished, luminous, shiny, glorious, splendid, burnished, silky, unsafe, icy, unstable, wet

Nearby words

  1. glabellum,
  2. glaber,
  3. glabrate,
  4. glabrescent,
  5. glabrous,
  6. glace bay,
  7. glacial,
  8. glacial acetic acid,
  9. glacial drift,
  10. glacial epoch

Origin of glace

< Canadian French, French: ice; see glacé

glacé

[gla-sey]

frosted or iced, as cake.
candied, as fruits.

adjective

frozen.
finished with a gloss, as kid or silk.

verb (used with object), gla·céed, gla·cé·ing.

to make glacé.

Origin of glacé

1840–50; < French, past participle of glacer to freeze, derivative of glace ice < Latin glaciēs
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British Dictionary definitions for glace

glacé

adjective

crystallized or candiedglacé cherries
covered in icing
(of leather, silk, etc) having a glossy finish
mainly US frozen or iced

verb -cés, -céing or -céed

(tr) to ice or candy (cakes, fruits, etc)

Word Origin for glacé

C19: from French glacé, literally: iced, from glacer to freeze, from glace ice, from Latin glaciēs
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Word Origin and History for glace

glace

adj.

"having a smooth, polished surface," 1847, from French glacé, past participle of glacer "to ice, give a gloss to," from Vulgar Latin *glaciare "to turn or make into ice," from Latin glacies "ice" (see glacial).

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