† flambe
[a. OF. flambe (var. of flamme flame n.), still used in Fr. as the name of the plant.]
a. A torch. b. The yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus); in quot. attrib.
| c 1430 Lydg. Bochas ii. xxvii. (1554) 63 b, No flambes nor brondes clere shining To bren his body w{supt} fiers funeral. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C v, Take smale flambe rotis. |