Crossword-Solution: MARRONS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When she’s paid, she’ll suddenly buy such rot as _marrons glacés_, and then _I_ have to buy her season-ticket, and her extras, even her underclothing.

Occasional swarthy visitors,--men of the Manilla settlements,--she spoke of contemptuously as negues-marrons; and once she shocked Carmen inexpressibly by stopping in the middle of her evening prayer, declaring that she wanted to say her prayers to a white Virgin; Carmen's Senora de Guadalupe was only a negra! Then, for the first time, Carmen spoke so crossly to the child as to frighten her.

How human! How like your ignoble career, Bubbles!” With care and elaboration they ornamented that tree's lower branches with sugar-topped biscuits, oranges, bits of banana, and _marrons glacés_ till it looked a very ape's path to Paradise.

Everywhere were candies from all over the world, and fruitcake from London, and marrons and sticky candied fruit, and everywhere unobtrusive maids were silently offering trays covered with small glasses.

Suddenly everything was ready; the crisp, smoking-hot French loaf, the big, brown jar of bubbling and odorous chicken, the lettuce curled in its bowl, the long-necked bottles in their straw cases, and cheeses and crackers and olives and figs and tiny fish in oil and marrons in fluted paper that were a part of all Peter's dinners.