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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In a flambé baked Alaska, does the brandy lose its bite?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
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
Otherwise, it’s watermelon flambé at the Kardashian inauguration, and yes, we’re the watermelon.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2016
Barb smiles at him as he starts rambling on about pears flambé with some kind of reduction.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Patrons can order shrimp served with a creamy sauce made with vanilla extract, a chayote squash soup with vanilla seeds, a vanilla liqueur drink called Papenteco Kiss and plantains flambéed with vanilla ice cream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Impress a date with steak Diane, with a creamy sauce that can be flambéed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
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
A trolley selling sandwiches stood where once the onboard chef in pristine whites could be found creating mouth-watering dishes like flambéed Bourbon shrimp or zesty brochette of Dijon lamb.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2015
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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