| 释义 |
glacé /ˈɡlaseɪ /adjective1(Of fruit) preserved in sugar: a glacé cherry...- In some fancy versions, these are omitted from the bottom, which is covered with a decorative arrangement of glacé fruit with a layer of jelly cementing it into a mosaic.
- When I was a kid there would always be a box of glacé fruit at Christmas which largely remained uneaten and which I would not have touched in a million years.
- She left out the glacé cherries because she couldn't abide the sticky things, substituting dates, which she loved.
2(Of cloth or leather) smooth and highly polished.I bought them instantly, in slightly more practical black, plus another style in red glacé leather. Origin Mid 19th century: French, literally 'iced', past participle of glacer, from glace 'ice'. Rhymes déclassé, laissez-passer |