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flambé

flambé adjective: being, or having been, flambéed.

flambé: being, or having been, flambéed
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Adjective

flambé (not comparable)

  1. Being, or having been, flambéed.
  2. Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

Noun

flambé (plural flambés)

  1. A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
  2. A flambéed dish.

Verb

flambé (third-person singular simple present flambés, present participle flambéing, simple past and past participle flambéed or flambéd)

  1. To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
    • “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”

flambé meaning in Indonesian

flambé in Indonesian

cooking technique
flambe

Forms of flambé

Adjective
alternative formflambe
Noun
pluralflambés
Verb
third-person singular presentflambés
present participleflambéing
past participleflambéed
pastflambéed
past participleflambéd
pastflambéd

Origin of flambé

Borrowed from French flambé.

Words formed from flambé

Phrases with flambé

Questions about flambé

What does flambé mean?
Flambé means being, or having been, flambéed.
What is flambé in Indonesian?
Flambé in Indonesian is flambe. See Flambé meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is flambé?
Flambé can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near flambé in the dictionary

  1. flamboyers
  2. flamboys
  3. flambs
  4. Flambures
  5. flambustered
  6. flambé
  7. flambéd
  8. flambéed
  9. flambéing
  10. flambés
  11. flamdoodle

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