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The Comrie Flambeaux will be accompanied by music and people in fancy dress before the remnants of the torches are thrown into the River Earn.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2022

It was a place where Jelly Boy the Clown could catch up with Flambeaux the fire performer, while Albert Cadabra the magician readied his next trick.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2013

In Verhaeren's trilogy, Les Soirs, Les Débâcles, Les Flambeaux Noirs, we have a document that must be priceless to pathologists as to psychologists.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

Flambeaux and aromatic lamps were here lighted in open day.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

He saw Coaches surround his Door, and Pages and Footmen, with Flambeaux.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague