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marrons glacés

[ French ma-rawn gla-sey ]

plural noun

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


marrons glacés

/ marɔ̃ ɡlase /

plural noun

  1. chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed


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Word History and Origins

Origin of marrons glacés1

Borrowed into English from French around 1870–75

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Example Sentences

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

There was another dish filled with marrons glacés and malaga grapes preserved in sugar.

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.

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