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glacé

/ˈɡlæseɪ/

glacé adjective: having a glossy surface.

Adjective

glacé (not comparable)

  1. having a glossy surface
    • glacé silk
  2. coated with sugar; candied or crystallised

Verb

glacé (third-person singular simple present glacés, present participle glacéing, simple past and past participle glacéed)

  1. (transitive) To give a glossy surface to; to glaze.

Forms of glacé

third-person singular presentglacés
present participleglacéing
past participleglacéed
pastglacéed

Origin of glacé

Borrowed from French glacé, past participle of glacer (“to glaze or freeze”).

Words formed from glacé

Phrases with glacé

Words that rhyme with glacé

Questions about glacé

What does glacé mean?
Glacé means having a glossy surface.
What part of speech is glacé?
Glacé can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce glacé?
Glacé is pronounced /ˈɡlæseɪ/.

Words near glacé in the dictionary

  1. glacises
  2. Glacken
  3. Glackens
  4. Glackin
  5. Glackins
  6. glacé
  7. glacé fruit
  8. glacé fruits
  9. glacéd
  10. glacéed
  11. glacéing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glacé (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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