flambé
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See also: flambe
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]flambé (not comparable)
- (cooking) 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]being or having been flambéed
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Noun
[edit]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
[edit]cooking technique
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act of flambéing
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flambéed dish
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Verb
[edit]flambé (third-person singular simple present flambés, present participle flambéing, simple past and past participle flambéed or flambéd)
- 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
[edit]to add and ignite alcohol to food
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Anagrams
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[edit]Pronunciation
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Participle
[edit]flambé (feminine flambée, masculine plural flambés, feminine plural flambées)
Further reading
[edit]- “flambé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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