flambeaux
- plural of flambeau.
Example Sentences
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Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Often, when the Queen was entertaining distinguished company under the flambeaux of the Great Hall, Lancelot had found him sitting by himself in a small room, mending stockings.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
A hundred thousand flambeaux, inclosed in rich crystal cylinders, illuminated the gardens and the dining-hall.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
They are perfectly dark, the only means of exploring them being by the use of flambeaux; but to what length they extend has never been discovered.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
