Crossword-Solution: FLAMBEAU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flambeau | n. | A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “FLAMBEAU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A lit torch | 1 answer |
| A medic wearing jumper with posh torch | 1 answer |
| Flaming torch | 1 answer |
| Large candlestick | 1 answer |
| Lighted torch | 1 answer |
| Mardi Gras torch | 1 answer |
| burning torch, as used in night processions | 1 answer |
| BURNING TORCH | 11 answers |
| Kettle | 16 answers |
| Torch | 17 answers |
| flare | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLAMBEAU (5)
The shadow of a large high-roofed house, and of many over-hanging trees, was upon Monsieur the Marquis by that time; and the shadow was exchanged for the light of a flambeau, as his carriage stopped, and the great door of his chateau was opened to him.
All else was so quiet, that the flambeau carried up the steps, and the other flambeau held at the great door, burnt as if they were in a close room of state, instead of being in the open night-air.
Avoiding the larger rooms, which were dark and made fast for the night, Monsieur the Marquis, with his flambeau-bearer going on before, went up the staircase to a door in a corridor.
Probably he would travel as some minor clerk or secretary connected with it; but, of course, Valentin could not be certain; nobody could be certain about Flambeau.
But in his best days (I mean, of course, his worst) Flambeau was a figure as statuesque and international as the Kaiser.
Quotes with FLAMBEAU (1)
It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, …
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Appears in: LAT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2009–2014).