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flambeau

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈflambəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted aabeflmuStarts with FEnds with U0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)

Word origin

Borrowed from French flambeau.

Used in a sentence

  • 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, […]
  • 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.

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