glace

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"Eureka!" said he; "behold that dish by Lady Bassett; those are marrons glaces; fetch them here, and let us go in for a fit of the gout at once."

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

She told us gravely, the other day, that the Druses were much more interesting than the Maronites, because they sounded like Drusus and Rome, whereas the Maronites were only like marrons glaces, etc.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

For her were the gray things, the neutral tinted skies, the ugly garb, the coarse meats; for them the rainbow, the ethereal airiness of earthly joys, the bonbons and glaces of the world.

From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

The diplomatists, as they saw from the high casements of the palace this tardy operation going on, exchanged glaces with each other at its contemptuous trifling.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various