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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

Enter Page with a Flambeaux, followed by Cinthio; passes over the Stage.

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

There was a prodigious long procession of Flambeaux; Friars, white, black, and gray, very trumpery, and marvellous foul-looking; no plumes, banners, scutcheons, led horses, or open chariots,—altogether most mean obsequies.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

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

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