marrons glacés

[ French ma-rawngla-sey ]

plural noun
  1. marrons glazed or coated with sugar, eaten as a confection; candied chestnuts.

Origin of marrons glacés

1
Borrowed into English from French around 1870–75

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How to use marrons glacés in a sentence

  • So I went, taking with me a magnificent bouquet, and an embroidered satin bag full of marrons glacés.

    In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
  • There was another dish filled with marrons glacés and malaga grapes preserved in sugar.

    The Gorgeous Girl | Nalbro Bartley
  • You don't mean to say those are marrons glacés you've got there?

  • I adore bonbons and marrons glacés, and nobody here has as good ones as Sanchez, nor anywhere else for that matter.

  • But whether he meant the marrons glacés or the first visit of his beloved elders to the glorious flat cannot be decided.

    A Great Man | Arnold Bennett

British Dictionary definitions for marrons glacés

marrons glacés

/ French (marɔ̃ ɡlase) /


pl n
  1. chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed

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