Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lighted torch.
- n. A large ornamental candlestick.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flaming torch of any kind; specifically, a light made of thick wicks covered with wax or other inflammable material, and used at night in illuminations, processions, etc.
- n. In decorative art, a candlestick, especially a large and showy one, as of bronze, or one of decorative material.
- n. One of the set of kettles used in the open-kettle process of sugarmaking, so called because the flames of the furnace strike it with most force.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
Etymologies
- From French flambeau. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from flambe, flame; see flame. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The flambeau is made of bark, but if the poaching happens to be in a river near the C.N.R. Railway it is easier to steal the waste from the boxes of freight cars, as this makes a better flambeau.”
“This done, he re-entered the cavern, turned to his left, fixed his new kind of flambeau upright against the wall, poured the liquor in the wax cup, and then went out again to procure fire.”
“flambeau" fishing at night, the fellow "roared and bellowed" and set him at defiance; no less than twenty companions joined him in the fishing.”
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
““He awaits you in his rooms, madam,” he said, holding his flambeau aloft, lighting the way.”
“Do not miss the video at the end of this edition, in which students portent le flambeau, or "carry the torch" of remembrance via song.”
“Flambeau Shady Lady $60; www. flambeau outdoors. com Raised feather details are covered with electrostatically applied flocking to give this hard, full-body hen decoy a lifelike sheen.”
“Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 28 weeks 4 days ago blaze orange is a must have no matter what in the fall almost any time you go into the woods. but for dove decoys flambeau makes some good ones with a little clip on the bottom of them to put them on whatever.”
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“Marginalize him and then when the new administration comes in flambeau him, darth vader and the rest of the nazi heirarchy.”
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“And I soooo want to build a gallery flambeau of my own - I could keep it going for weeks...”
“And so great is the chance, that methinks I would fain dispense with extinguishing the flambeau.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘flambeau’.
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phrontistery - f
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Awesome
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Moss
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Prince of Parties
Some alternatives to calling it your 'D'.
Nebuchadnezzar, Old Adam, Old Horney, Old Man, Lady's Treasure, Lady-ware, Lamp of Life, Creamstick, Lance, Leather Stretcher, Love's Picklock, Love Apples and 87 more...
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I'm -Eau -Que You're -Eau -Que
communique, applique, risque, bandeau, bateau, beau, bordereau, bureau, chapeau, chateau, cointreau, coteau and 23 more...
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little light in the loafers
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