flambé
See also: flambe
English
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Etymology
Adjective
flambé (not comparable)
- Being, or having been, flambéed.
- (ceramics, of Chinese porcelain) Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.
Translations
being or having been flambéed
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Noun
flambé (plural flambés)
- (cooking) A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
- A flambéed dish.
Translations
cooking technique
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act of flambéing
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flambéed dish
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Verb
flambé (third-person singular simple present flambés, present participle flambéing, simple past and past participle flambéed)
- To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
- "Flambé the dessert", ordered the Chef, "but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off."
Translations
to add and ignite alcohol to food
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Pronunciation
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Verb
flambé (feminine flambée, masculine plural flambés, feminine plural flambées)
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