flambeau

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flambeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflambəʊ/, /flamˈbəʊ/

Noun

flambeau (plural flambeaus or flambeaux)

1. A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

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

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 955:

     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.

Translations

a burning torch, especially one carried in procession

• Bulgarian: горящ факел m (gorjašt fakel)
• French: flambeau (fr) m
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• Irish: stapal m
• Russian: фа́кел (ru) m (fákel)

See also

• flambé
• flamboyant

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French

Etymology

flambe +‎ -eau.

Noun

flambeau m (plural flambeaux)

1. torch
2. candle
3. candlestick
4. (metonymically) light, flame as symbolic spirit of something

Descendants

• → Dutch: flambouw
• → Spanish: flambó

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• “flambeau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.