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flambe

noun

Meaning

  1. A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
  2. A flambéed dish.
  3. To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
  4. Being, or having been, flambéed.
  5. (of Chinese porcelain) Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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