Meaning & use
flambeau
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a flaming torch, especially a large one made of thick twisted wicks, used for lighting or ceremony.
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Marchers carried flambeaux through the streets during the nighttime parade.
The old photograph showed guards holding flambeaus at the castle gate.
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Borrowed from French; the plural can be spelled either 'flambeaus' or 'flambeaux.'
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