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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of flambeau English)
WordNet
n. a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night)
[also: flambeaux (pl)]
See flambeau
Wikipedia
Flambeaux is a fire performer that made it to the Top 40 on NBC's hit series America's Got Talent season 3. His audition performance was featured on-air, although his second show in Las Vegas only had a few clips aired on the show. He made it to the third round in Los Angeles where he was voted off the show.
He has been performing fire in New York City since 1991 in shows such as Le Scandal and Simon Hammerstein's The Box.
Flambeaux became an underground icon in downtown New York City through his performance troupe dubbed "The P-Cult". The P-Cult formed in 1999 and disbanded in 2007 around the time Flambeaux joined the cast of "The Box."
He first learned fire through his time spent around the circus Archaos in London from 1988-1989.
He and his wife are fire partners and business partners. They have performed together in productions such as Top Talent USA at Turning Stone Resort & Casino.
Usage examples of "flambeaux".
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!
Molte persone venivano a trovarci: Blair Sackwell di Visone Midnight, che è veramente un amico meraviglioso, e Gallo, Flambeaux, il primo vero amante di mamma, e attori e attrici di tutt'Europa.
Faint dream or memory of the Comus parade that long-ago winter night, of the bands beating the fierce, dreadful cadence while the flambeaux flickered on the branches of oak trees.
Yes, the drums, he heard the drums, the old familiar Mardi Gras cadence of marching drums, the sound of the Comus parade moving swiftly through the winter dark on the tired dreary edge of Mardi Gras night, and the flicker of the flames was the flicker of the flambeaux beneath the twisted elbows of the oaks, and his fear was the all-knowing little boy's fear of long ago, and it was all here, everything he'd feared, happening at last, not a mere glimpse on the edge of dream, or with Deirdre's nightgown in his hands, but here, around him.
It was all much more brightly lighted for one thing, with the high-powered street lamps, and the old flambeaux were included for old times" sake only, not for illumination, and the young boys and girls playing the drums were just handsome and bright-faced young boys and girls.