flambeau

He and friends played hide-and-seek in nearby brush but never saw the flambeau lit.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

We were conducted back to our rooms by quite a procession, including the thin landlord and imposing landlady, headed by the Dragon bearing a flambeau.

From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood

“Maybe ’twill paint the blues in old Tory Cave, if we run across them there,” put in Tomoke, maiden of the flambeau and the fire-talk.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook

At the same time, taking a flambeau in his hand, he hastily led the way on board his own ship, and set it on fire.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin

The page took up a little taper that lay near the flambeau, and, shuddering as he passed by the body, instantly departed on his errand.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

On Tuesday night, authorities lit flambeaus to keep wild animals away, an official involved in the operation told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022

Scarcely had we left the village when the flambeaus were extinguished, and we were left in almost total darkness.

From The Life of George Borrow by Herbert George Jenkins

It was dimly lighted by representations of flambeaus, stuck at angles in the walls.

From Man of Many Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

On came the mass of hunters with flambeaus, closing in, shrieking and shouting, driving the whole body of elephants before them.

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse

They came down here with torches and flambeaus and saw the darkness only, while the light came out to meet us, seeing we had none….

From Pélléas and Mélisande by Richard Hovey

Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Often, when the Queen was entertaining distinguished company under the flambeaux of the Great Hall, Lancelot had found him sitting by himself in a small room, mending stockings.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

They are perfectly dark, the only means of exploring them being by the use of flambeaux; but to what length they extend has never been discovered.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

It was a striking scene in the otherwise perfect darkness of the streets, the torch-bearers at the sides waving their flambeaux regularly over their heads, and shouting with the rest in chorus.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis