Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun Canadian chiefly Montreal.
- ice placed in a drink to cool it.
- 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.
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)
“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).