Definition of "flambeaux" [flambeaux]

• Plural form of flambeau. (noun)

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• "_ Mrs. Behn (or, haply, George Jenkins, the first editor of _The Widow Ranter_), here uses the ordinary form 'flambeaux' as a plural."
• "I cannot see, I said, that it is so very easy for a number of men to have been continually mistaking 'flambeaux' for 'stars,' 'thunder' for 'human speech,' and 'Roman soldiers' for 'angels.'""
• "The phaser shots flickered through the darkness, igniting the spongy green hearts and turning the oncoming figures into walking flambeaux."