Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Candied, sugar-coated: Describes fruit that has been preserved by being coated with or soaked in sugar syrup until it becomes crystallized or glossy.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The bakery sells delicious glace cherries for decorating cakes.
  • She prefers glace fruits in her holiday fruitcake.
  • The recipe calls for glace ginger, not fresh ginger.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a culinary context, particularly in baking and confectionery. It describes the finished state of the fruit after the preserving process.
• It can sometimes be used more broadly to describe anything with a hard, glossy sugar coating, similar to the icing on a cake.

Variants and Related Words

• Glacé (alternative spelling): The same word, often written with an accent in English, borrowed directly from French.
• Candied (adjective): A more common synonym with the same meaning.
• Glaze (verb/noun): While related in the sense of applying a glossy coating, "glaze" typically refers to a thin, often savory or non-crystalline coating (e.g., glazed ham, doughnut glaze), whereas "glacé" specifically implies a sugary, preserving process for fruit.

Synonyms

• Candied
• Sugar-coated
• Crystallized (when referring to fruit preserved in sugar)

Related Phrases

• Glacé fruit: The most common collocation, referring to the preserved fruit itself.
• Glacé icing: A type of thin, shiny icing made from powdered sugar and liquid, used to coat cakes and pastries. (Note: This is a related compound term, not a direct use of the adjective "glacé" alone).

Adjective

1. (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar