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
Vocabulary lists containing flambeau
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
Still another white beacon leaned over the hills where, like a stellar flambeau, the lead-star trembled and sputtered, kindled just on the apex of Henhawk's knob.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
One way of representing this goddess, it is said, was in the habit of a matron, holding in her right hand a flambeau or lamp, and sometimes a Palladium or small Victory.
From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous
But as some one has said, “Death lights up a terrible flambeau in which the aspect of all things is changed.”
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
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
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