flambe
noun
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A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
A flambéed dish.
verb
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To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
Example: "Flambé the dessert", ordered the Chef, "but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off."
adjective
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Being, or having been, flambéed.
(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.