marron glacé

English

Alternative forms

• marron glace

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Translations

chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla

• Arabic: مَارُون جْلَاسِيه m (mārūn jlāsīh), مَارُون غْلَاسِيه m (mārūn ḡlāsīh)
• Asturian: marron glacé m, castaña confitada f
• Catalan: marron glacé (ca) m, marron-glacé (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖漬栗子／糖渍栗子 (tángzì lìzi)

• Czech: kandovaný kaštan m, marron glacé m
• Finnish: sokerikuorrutettu kastanja
• French: marron glacé (fr) m
• Galician: marron glacé (gl) m, castaña confeitada f
• German: glasierte Marone f
• Greek: μαρόν γλασέ n (marón glasé)
• Hungarian: sült gesztenye, kandírozott gesztenye, cukrozott gesztenye
• Italian: marron glacé m
• Japanese: マロングラッセ (maron gurasse)
• Korean: 마롱 글라세 (marong geullase)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şekirê şambelotan

• Polish: kandyzowany kasztan m
• Portuguese: marron-glacé m, castanha glaçada f
• Russian: маро́н гласе́ m (marón glasé), марро́н гласе́ m (marrón glasé)
• Spanish: marron glacé m, castaña confitada f
• Swedish: kanderad kastanj c
• Turkish: kestane şekeri (tr)

Catalan

Alternative forms

• marron-glacé

Etymology

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

A literal translation would be castanya glaçada.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

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

French

Etymology

Literally, “iced chestnut”.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

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

Italian

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marron glacé m (plural marrons glacés)

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