Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a smooth, glazed or glossy surface, such as certain silks or leathers.
- adjective Coated with a sugar glaze; candied.
- transitive verb To glaze.
- transitive verb To candy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Iced; glossed; glossy; lustrous: as, glacé fruit; glacé silk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Smoothly coated with icing or crystals of sugar; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a
glossy surface - adjective
coated withsugar ;candied orcrystallised
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from past participle of glacer, to glaze, freeze, from Old French, to freeze, from Latin glaciāre; see glaciate.]
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French from glacer, to glaze or freeze
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