flambeau

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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

—The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy!

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

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

With the bride to the bridal apartment they go, Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau.

From Child Maidelvold and other ballads by George Henry Borrow

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

Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus, and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the occasion.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott

High and low the serfs looked out, red the flambeaus tossed about— Toll slowly.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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

The sword was gilded, and shone bright, in the light of the flambeaux, above the duke's head.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

The gold and silver plate was very handsome, particularly the massive flambeaux and high ornaments for the middle of the table.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington