flambé
Americanadjective
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Also flambéed (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy.
steak flambé.
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Ceramics.
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(of a glaze) dense and streaked with contrasting colors, usually red and blue.
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(of a ceramic object) covered with a flambé glaze.
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verb (used with object)
adjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of flambé
1885–90; < French, past participle of flamber to flame. See flambeau
Vocabulary lists containing flambe
Example Sentences
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So, in addition to the anger, there were a lot of caftans and macrame, and after the press left, they had custard flambé and they all set fire to their bras.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
The North will want him, as will anyone in the realm that Dany doesn't flambé.
From Salon ● May 6, 2019
I directed Max to extinguish the flames, but only after preparing an impromptu banana flambé.
From Nature ● Mar. 20, 2018
Eli Manning, who decided to wear a glove on his non-throwing hand this season in an attempt to limit his turnovers, will face his traditional September flambé.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2017
Barb smiles at him as he starts rambling on about pears flambé with some kind of reduction.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Phillipson is also a musician and award-winning poet, and the room has an ambient soundscape combining remixed weather forecasts with a narration about the earth being "like a flambéed tomato".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022
Petit gris snails, which, in Occitanie, are grilled over vinewood, flambéed with lard, skewered on metal picks, and shuttled straight into the mouth, chased with cold rosé.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022
Things are bad in America now — climate change, political unrest, pandemic, a vast wealth gap — but at least people aren’t being flambéed by dragons.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022
Huevos a la Mexicana are scrambled with smoky salsa; the mysteriously named Huevos Flameados — meaning flambéed — are tossed with cheese to create a sort of omelet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2019
Fish-wise, the filet of smoked mackerel is flambéed in ouzo and served with tomato, onions and capers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
I’d only ever had it at restaurants, where the descriptions sounded intimidating, calling for veal demi-glace and flambéing tableside.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
These soiree-centered episodes produce some of the show's most incisive comedy; "Juneteenth" set that bar in the first season by flambéing the Black bourgeoisie's absurd class snobbery and assimilationist aspirations.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Tonight Ms. Arango was in a black suit, shaving truffles over hamburgers, flambéing whole ducks, carving lamb.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
Now, here’s the really wild part: all that searing, scorching, en flambéing hot blast madness doesn’t gradually fade out: it ends abruptly.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2013
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