flambé

American  

[flahm-bey, flahn-bey] / flɑmˈbeɪ, flɑ̃ˈbeɪ /

adjective

1. Also flambéed (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy.

   steak flambé.

2. Ceramics.

   1. (of a glaze) dense and streaked with contrasting colors, usually red and blue.

   2. (of a ceramic object) covered with a flambé glaze.

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verb (used with object)

flambéed, flambéing

1. to pour liquor over and ignite.

flambé British  

/ ˈflɑːmbeɪ, ˈflæm-, flɑ̃be /

adjective

1. (of food, such as steak or pancakes) served in flaming brandy

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verb

1. (tr) to pour brandy over (food) and ignite it

Etymology

Origin of flambé

1885–90; < French, past participle of flamber to flame. See flambeau

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

flambé flambéed flambéing

“Do you have the peaches flambé for carryout?”

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2020

I fear nothing from the flambé, to a robust imitation of the famous Turkish chef Salt Bae as I shower my creations with sodium.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 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

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

So why wouldn’t she be excited to share a flambéed dessert with a bunch of complete strangers who could potentially help her career?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Impress a date with steak Diane, with a creamy sauce that can be flambéed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2023

Phillipson is also a musician and award-winning poet, and the room has an ambient soundscape combining remixed weather forecasts with a narration about the earth being "like a flambéed tomato".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022

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

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