glacé

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When cool, spread with glacé frosting.

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  1. adjective Having a smooth, glazed or glossy surface, such as certain silks or leathers.
  2. adjective Coated with a sugar glaze; candied.
  3. transitive verb To glaze.

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  • Dessert will be an apple cinnamon sponge cake with a sweet-cream glacé. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • To balance out the sweetness of the sultanas you need something with a little tang - I suppose you could substitute finely grated orange zest if the glacé orange is hard to find. —  Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once
  • Sprinkle a spoonful of the flour mixture over the diced glacé orange and stir - this will coat the orange with flour and help stop them from sticking together. —  Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once
  • They'll enjoy a three-course menu of foods that reflect the presidency of Abraham Lincoln (let's skip right to desert: an apple cinnamon sponge cake with sweet cream glacé) and wine pairings. —  The Caucus
  • Exeter five-piece OP have nothing to fear from such textual oddities, being as they are an awesome cocktail of the sour flavours of '80s post punkers like PiL and Pere Ubu decorated with glacé cherries of grunge-pop. —  NME.COM - News
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from past participle of glacer, to glaze, freeze, from Old French, to freeze, from Latin glaciāre; see glaciate.

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  1. French, iced, glazed, past participle of glacer, freeze, from glace, ice, from Latin glacies, ice.
 

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