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flambeau

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flam·beau  (flmb)
n. pl. flam·beaux (-bz) or flam·beaus
1. A lighted torch.
2. A large ornamental candlestick.
[French, from Old French, from flambe, flame; see flame.]
flambeau [ˈflæmbəʊ]
n pl -beaux [-bəʊ -bəʊz], -beaus
1. a burning torch, as used in night processions
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a large ornamental candlestick
[from Old French: torch, literally: a little flame, from flambe flame]
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Noun1.flambeau - a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
torch - a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance


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, were rigidly ranked, until a tall shadow fell across the table, and his friend Flambeau sat down opposite.
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But in his best days (I mean, of course, his worst) Flambeau was a figure as statuesque and international as the Kaiser.
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Here, scrambling over the heads of the crowd, he managed to get to the wall; when, seizing a flambeau from one of the Caryatides, he returned, as he went, to the centre of the room-leaping, with the agility of a monkey, upon the kings head, and thence clambered a few feet up the chain; holding down the torch to examine the group of ourang-outangs, and still screaming: "I shall soon find out who they are
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