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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flambeau \Flam"beau\; n.; pl. Flambeauxor Flambeaus. [F., fr. OF. flambe flame, for flamble, from L. flammula a little flame, dim. of flamma flame. See Flame.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flambeaux, 1630s, "flaming torch," from French flambeau (14c.), from flambe "flame" (see flamboyant). By 1883 as "a large, decorative candlestick."
Wiktionary
n. A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
WordNet
n. a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
[also: flambeaux (pl)]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Flambeau may refer to:
- A burning torch, especially one carried in procession
- Flambeau, a multi-flame torch traditionally carried in night parades during New Orleans Mardi Gras (Louisiana, U.S.); generally the plural flambeaux is used.
- Fiesta Flambeau parade, during Fiesta San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
- The Flambeau River, in northern Wisconsin, U.S.
- Flambeau, Price County, Wisconsin
- Flambeau, Rusk County, Wisconsin
- The former Chicago and North Western Flambeau passenger train, later renamed the Flambeau 400
- Flambeau, one of the founding members of the Order of Hermes in the game Ars Magica
- Flambeau, a flame fed by natural gas on early natural gas wells to show that the gas was flowing; see Gas flare.
- Flambeau butterfly, Dryas iulia
- Flambeau, Inc., owner of Duncan Toys Company
- Hercule Flambeau, a character in G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories
M. Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who appears in 48 short stories about the character Father Brown. A master criminal, his surname "Flambeau" is an alias, the French word for a flaming torch.
He first appeared in the story " The Blue Cross" as a jewel thief. Father Brown foiled his attempted crimes in this and several other stories. As a notorious and elusive criminal, Flambeau is a worry for law-enforcers. He is exposed by Father Brown, and later becomes a detective himself. His last appearance as a thief occurs in "The Flying Stars", in which Father Brown persuades him to return his loot and to give up the criminal life. As a reformed criminal, Flambeau assists Father Brown in a number of other short stories, beginning with "The Invisible Man".
Although Brown and Flambeau spend much of the day together in "The Blue Cross", when they meet again in " The Queer Feet", Brown recognizes Flambeau but the thief has no recollection of the priest.
Flambeau is an idiosyncratic character. Conventional detective fiction often splits humanity into the "good" and the "bad", but the priest sees things in a more graduated light, and considers the possibility of redemption. He becomes Flambeau's friend before he reforms him, and uses this friendship to transform him. In "The Secret of Flambeau", Flambeau credits Father Brown for his reformation when he says, "Have I not heard the sermons of the righteous? […] Do you think all that ever did anything but make me laugh? Only my friend told me that he knew exactly why I stole, and I have never stolen since."
Flambeau's fate is revealed in "The Secret of Father Brown". Retiring as a detective, he marries and settles in a Spanish castle, raises a large family and lives in a blissful state of domesticity. Flambeau gives up his assumed name and returns to using his birth name, Duroc.
Flambeau has appeared in several film, television and radio adaptations. Actors who have portrayed him include:
- Paul Lukas – Father Brown, Detective (1934 film)
- Bill Griffis – The Adventures of Father Brown (1945 radio series)
- Peter Finch – Father Brown/The Detective (US title) (1954 film)
- Siegfried Lowitz – Das schwarze Schaf (The Black Sheep) (1960 film)
- Dennis Burgess – Father Brown (1974 TV series)
- Olivier Pierre – Father Brown Stories (1984–1986 BBC Radio series)
- John Light – Father Brown (2013 TV series) (Episodes: 1.10 "The Blue Cross", 2.5 "The Mysteries of the Rosary", 3.10 "The Judgement of Man", 4.5 "The Daughter of Autolycus")
Usage examples of "flambeau".
Damon Julian went in front, walking through the narrow gaslit streets arm in arm with Cynthia, wearing a private ghost of a smile as he regarded the iron balconies, the gates opening on courtyards with their flambeaux and their fountains, the gas lamps atop iron poles.
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 to 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, this, he assured them, made his heart weep.
He then took a flambeau, called two musketeers, and descended the deserted staircase with the unfortunate king, holding in his left hand his hat, the plume of which swept the steps.
An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
Gradually the midget music got raucous as a bunnyhug for grizzly bears and loud as a polka for elephants, while the glow became a riot of gas flares and flambeaux and corpse-blue mercury tubes and jiggling pink neon ones that all jeered at the stars where the spaceships roved.
Gradually the midget music got raucous as a bunnyhug for grizzly bears and loud as a polka for elephants, while the glow be came a riot of gas flares and flambeaux and corpse-blue mercury tubes and jiggling pink neon ones that all jeered at the stars where the spaceships roved.
In a vast subcampus chamber of his own devising, lit by flambeaux and known to none but himself, he would keep them prisoner, not a stitch among them, and perpetrate at his whim exquisitest carnalities upon whom he chose.
Additional sconces were set in various parts of the hall, out of the war, and a flambeau, emitting sweet odor, was placed in the right hand of each of the Caryatides that stood against the wall some fifty or sixty altogether.
She was fortunate that these bushes grew all along the river, and even more fortunate that the bag of supplies the Flambeaus had provided had enabled her to remain all day in the river, not having to break to forage for food while traveling.
The Hackleberries and the Flambeaus had met, and liked each other, and were cooperating in the plans for Kelvin's marriage to Heln.
Conan saw that the man-if a man, in fact-was replacing burned-out flambeaus with fresh brands, removing these unlighted sticks from a large pack upon his back.
Bonnie said, going back to France to make Of Love and Sorrow with Flambeaux, the last of her "artistic" films to be released in this country.
Lots of people came to visit-Blair Sackwell of Midnight Mink, who is an absolutely wonderful friend of mine, and Gallo, and Flambeaux, Mom's first real lover, and actors and actresses from all over Europe.
Clips from Gallo, Flambeaux, all Moro's Nouvelle Vague successes would be used in this brand-new concept series, that would have the thrust of "Dynasty" and the style of Mom's old films.
Succede che c'è quel bel tipo di André Flambeaux, che dà un'occhiata a Bonnie e cade giù su un solo ginocchio e dice con pastoso accento francese: "Brigitte!