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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I added to his song with every version of I will flambé the Grand Marnier: je vais flamber le Grand Marnier that I could muster.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024
“Do you have the peaches flambé for carryout?”
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2020
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
Dessert was the Cloud, a cotton candy-based treat arriving with a flambéed, Instagram-worthy presentation—and it was just as tasty as it was shareable.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
It’s not the same as queso fundido, the Mexican dish of flambéed, melted cheese eaten in soft tortillas.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2017
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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