| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| glacé |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | gla·cé |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  glä-s  |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having a smooth, glazed or glossy surface, such as certain silks or leathers. 2. Coated with a sugar glaze; candied. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: gla·céed, gla·cé·ing, gla·cés
1. To glaze. 2. To candy. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from past participle of glacer, to glaze, freeze, from Old French, to freeze, from Latin glacire. See glaciate.
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
