flambeau
Americannoun
plural
flambeaux, flambeaus-
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
Etymology
Origin of flambeau
1625–35; < French: torch, derivative of Old French flambe flame
Example Sentences
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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
En sa tombe repose honneur et courtoisie, Et la jeune beauté qu'en l'ame je sentois, Et le flambeau d'Amour, ses traits et son carquois, Et ensemble mon cœur, mes pensées et ma vie.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Its monuments and statues, where they were complacently innocent of art, had been brought into harmony of tone by the atmosphere vivid like the flambeau trees, the inconceivable blueness of its sea.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph
The candle-gleam of science; the flambeau of the lover; the constellated nebulæ of the poet.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
The flambeau trees in the Parque Isabel were like conflagrations.
From The Bright Shawl by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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