Flambeau

Quick meaning: Flambeau is a noun meaning A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.

Meaning

A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.

Example Sentences

Saint-Antoine has its cannon pointed (full of grapeshot); thrice applies the lit flambeau; which thrice refuses to catch,—the touchholes are so wetted.

[…] 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, […]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• flambeaus
• flambeaux

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include torch, firebrand, flamer, bonfire, flamelight, blaze.

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