flambeau
/ˈflambəʊ/
flambeau noun: a burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
Noun
flambeau (plural flambeaus or flambeaux)
- A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
- Saint-Antoine has its cannon pointed (full of grapeshot); thrice applies the lit flambeau; which thrice refuses to catch,—the touchholes are so wetted....1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
- […] With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, / With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
Examples of flambeau in a sentence
- There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132:
- She walked quietly with apparent composure and lowered head but her pallor betrayed her mortal fear – her skin glowed almost nacrous in the warm rose of the flambeaux.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 955:
Forms of flambeau
| plural | flambeaus |
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| plural | flambeaux |
Origin of flambeau
Borrowed from French flambeau.
Words that rhyme with flambeau
Questions about flambeau
- What does flambeau mean?
- Flambeau means a burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
- How do you use flambeau in a sentence?
- There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.
- What part of speech is flambeau?
- Flambeau is a noun.
- How do you pronounce flambeau?
- Flambeau is pronounced /ˈflambəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flambeau?
- The plural of flambeau is flambeaus.
Words near flambeau in the dictionary
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