flambeau
pronunciation
How to pronounce flambeau in British English:
UK ['flæmbəʊ]
How to pronounce flambeau in American English:
US ['flæmboʊ]
-
- Noun:
- a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
Word Origin
- flambeau (n.)
- also flambeaux, 1630s, "flaming torch," from French flambeau (14c.), from flambe "flame" (see flamboyant). By 1883 as "a large, decorative candlestick."
Example
- 1. Seizing a flambeau from one of the caryatides , he returned ...... to the center of the room-leaped , with the agility of a monkey , upon the king 's head .
- 2. Up the broad flight of shallow steps , monsieur the marquis , flambeau preceded , went from his carriage , sufficiently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees .