Jump To:

• glace
  glace

  noun

  ice placed in a drink to cool it.
• glacé
  glacé

  frosted or iced, as cake.

glace

¹ American  

[glas] / glæs /

noun

Canadian chiefly Montreal.

1. ice placed in a drink to cool it.

---

glacé ² American  

[gla-sey] / glæˈseɪ /

1. frosted or iced, as cake.

2. candied, as fruits.

---

adjective

1. frozen.

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

verb (used with object)

glacéed, glacéing

1. to make glacé.

glacé British  

/ ˈɡlæsɪ /

adjective

1. crystallized or candied

   glacé cherries

2. covered in icing

3. (of leather, silk, etc) having a glossy finish

4. frozen or iced

---

verb

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

Etymology

Origin of glace¹

< Canadian French, French: ice; see glacé

Origin of glacé²

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

Example Sentences

When she's paid, she'll suddenly buy such rot as marrons glaces, and then I have to buy her season ticket, and her extras, even her underclothing.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

I would have bought the whole shop, and I was looking about to see what sweets to choose, when my friend asked for a pound of raisins glaces.

From Camille by Dumas fils, Alexandre

And all the time they're really counting the marron glaces.

From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford

The diplomatists, as they saw from the high casements of the palace this tardy operation going on, exchanged glaces with each other at its contemptuous trifling.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

The gem of the confection as marron glaces?

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Related Words

• sticky
• sweet
• syrupy