glace

[ glas ]

/ glæs /

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noun Canadian chiefly Montreal.

ice placed in a drink to cool it.

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Origin of glace

<Canadian French, French: ice; see glacé

Other definitions for glace (2 of 2)

glacé

[ gla-sey ]

/ glæˈseɪ /

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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How to use glace in a sentence

An empty stone hut beyond the mer de glace gave them shelter for the night.
Rudy and Babette|Hans Christian Andersen
We walked quickly over the Mer de Glace, and in about three hours came to the difficult part.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge
I am sorry, if that was all, that Helena did not stay to hear such a charming moral compliment—Moralit la glace.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)|Maria Edgeworth
The greatest of them is the Mer de Glace, on which every visitor must set his foot.
The Spell of Switzerland|Nathan Haskell Dole

The boulder clay of Germany is supposed to have accumulated underneath this vast "mer de glace," as he calls it.
The History of the European Fauna|R. F. Scharff

British Dictionary definitions for glace

glacé

/ (ˈɡlæsɪ) /

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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