▪ I. flamb, v. Sc.
(flæm)
Also 5–6 flawme, 6 flame, 6, 8 flamm.
[a. F. flambe-r to singe; originally a var. of flam(m)er to flame.]
trans. To baste (‘with flaming lard’, Jam.).
| c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 450 Take fygges..and frie hom, and flawme hom with honey. ? a 1550 Freiris of Berwik 137 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 289 Scho..bad the madin..To flawme, and turne, and rost thame tenderly. c 1568 Lauder Godlie Tractate 460 Euerie fatt Souch fedis and flammis ane vther. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xiii, The iron ladle, with which she had just been flambing (Anglicè, basting) the roast of mutton. |
| Proverb. 1721 Kelly Sc. Prov. 93 Every Man flamms [note basteth] the fat Sow's Arse. They will be sure to get most Gifts that least want them. |
▪ II. flamb(e
obs. forms of flame.