flambeau

Borrowed from French flambeau.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflambəʊ/, /flamˈbəʊ/

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.

• flambé
• flamboyant

flambe +‎ -eau.

flambeau m (plural flambeaux)

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

• Dutch: flambouw (borrowed)
• Spanish: flambó (borrowed)

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