flambé

== English == === Alternative forms === flambe === Etymology === Borrowed from French flambé. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === 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 ==== Florida flambe ==== Translations ==== === Noun === 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 ==== === Verb === 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. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === famble == French == === Pronunciation === === Participle === flambé (feminine flambée, masculine plural flambés, feminine plural flambées) past participle of flamber === Further reading === “flambé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012