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glace
1[ glas ]
noun
, Canadian chiefly Montreal.
- ice placed in a drink to cool it.
glacé
2[ gla-sey ]
- frosted or iced, as cake.
- candied, as fruits.
adjective
- finished with a gloss, as kid or silk.
verb (used with object)
, gla·céed, gla·cé·ing.
- to make glacé.
glacé
/ ˈɡlæsɪ /
adjective
- crystallized or candied
glacé cherries
- covered in icing
- (of leather, silk, etc) having a glossy finish
- frozen or iced
verb
- tr to ice or candy (cakes, fruits, etc)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glace2
1840–50; < French, past participle of glacer to freeze, derivative of glace ice < Latin glaciēs
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glace1
C19: from French glacé, literally: iced, from glacer to freeze, from glace ice, from Latin glaciēs
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Example Sentences
An empty stone hut beyond the mer de glace gave them shelter for the night.
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We walked quickly over the Mer de Glace, and in about three hours came to the difficult part.
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I am sorry, if that was all, that Helena did not stay to hear such a charming moral compliment—Moralit la glace.
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The greatest of them is the Mer de Glace, on which every visitor must set his foot.
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The boulder clay of Germany is supposed to have accumulated underneath this vast "mer de glace," as he calls it.
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