flambé
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flambé /ˈflɒmbeɪ/
▶adjective
- 1 [postpos.] (of food) covered with spirits and set alight briefly: steak flambé.
- 2 denoting or characterized by a lustrous red copper-based porcelain glaze with purple streaks.
– origin C19: Fr., lit. ‘singed’, past part. of flamber, from flambe ‘a flame’.
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