What is "marrons"

Usage examples of "marrons".

For Mevrouw van Tecqx she bought a box of marrons glaces, something she had always hankered after herself and had never had.

They lunched at the Glenmoriston Hotel, talking happily about a variety of subjects while they ate smoked salmon flan, steak and kidney pie, and followed these with pears stuffed with marrons glacis and covered with a brandy flavoured cream.

It must have been ten minutes later, not more, and I had been having QUITE an enjoyable chat with my hostess, and had promised to lend her The Eternal City and my recipe for rabbit mayonnaise, and was just about to offer a kind home for her third Persian kitten, when I perceived, out of the corner of my eye, that Reginald was not where I had left him, and that the marrons glaces were untasted.

While draped over the marrons glaces, three media VIPs parading capricious and exotic swimwear compared upwardly-mobile tattoos and technological toys in streetwise accents.

I got up and fetched the tins of cheese straws and marrons glaces from the kitchen, but not the snails.