flambeau
Americannoun
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a flaming torch.
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a torch for use at night in illuminations, processions, etc.
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a large, decorated candlestick.
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an ornament having the form of a flaming torch.
noun
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a burning torch, as used in night processions
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a large ornamental candlestick
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Etymology
Origin of flambeau
1625–35; < French: torch, derivative of Old French flambe flame
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He and friends played hide-and-seek in nearby brush but never saw the flambeau lit.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
There was a house-heating up beside Preston, with feasting and dancing; and a great light, like that of a flambeau, proceeded from the onstead.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay
After another rain the bare flambeau trees would burst into fiery bloom.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph
And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
And he went on tiptoe to the door of the weaving room, unlocked it, and looked in, holding his flambeau high above his head.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
On Tuesday night, authorities lit flambeaus to keep wild animals away, an official involved in the operation told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
Hast thou not seen, sweeping so far and high, The meteors, midnight flambeaus of the sky, How after them they draw long trails of flame Wherever Nature gives a thoroughfare?
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus; and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the joyful occasion.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
On came the mass of hunters with flambeaus, closing in, shrieking and shouting, driving the whole body of elephants before them.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Pearse, Alfred
Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus, and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the occasion.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Two big footmen with flambeaux and tall candles escorted him to his carriage.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
Then there are meetings at street-corners or on the landing-places of traghetti—mysterious figures flitting to and fro in wide miraculous bautte beneath the light of flickering flambeaux.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
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