marron glacé

• marron glace

Borrowed from French marron glacé (literally “iced chestnut”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɹɒ̃ ˈɡlaseɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˌɹɑn ɡləˈseɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

marron glacé (countable and uncountable, plural marrons glacés)

1. A chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla.
   • 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 156:

     MARRON SANDWICH: Cut the bread in rounds with a biscuit cutter; put a marron glace in the center and around it whipped cream that has sweetened and flavored. Nice for afternoon luncheon.

2. (uncountable) The colour of such a chestnut; a light brown.
   • 1994 May, Mademoiselle, volume 100, page 162:

     Eyeshadow in Marron Glacé; Eye Liner in Dusky Brown.

   • 2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, And Other Stories 2013, p. 188:

     The leather was a dark chestnut, gleaming like oiled wood; her leg, in its filmy Hanes pantyhose, was two shades paler, and her cashmere dress was marron glacé.

• marron-glacé

Borrowed from French marron glacé (literally “iced chestnut”).

A literal translation would be castanya glaçada.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈroŋ ɡləˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [maˈroŋ ɡlaˈse]
• Rhymes: -e

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

1. marron glacé (chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla)

Literally, “iced chestnut”.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁɔ̃ ɡla.se/
• Rhymes: -e

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

1. marron glacé (chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla)

Unadapted borrowing from French marron glacé (literally “iced chestnut”).

The French term could be literally translated either as castagna glassata or as marrone glassato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ron ɡlasˈse/^**, /ˈmar.ron ɡlaˈse/^**, /ˈma.ron ɡlaˈse/^**[1]

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

1. marron glacé (chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured/flavored with vanilla)