flambe
- v pour liquor over and ignite (a dish)
- Baum's penchant for aerial views and all things flambe culminated in the Manhattan landmarks Windows on the World and the Rainbow Room.
- That night Reagan played host to Mitterrand at a lavish dinner (sea bass flambe, saddle of lamb) at the American embassy.
- Not since Charles Dickens has a novelist writing in English achieved Rowling's command over a whole society--young and not so young, of modest means and with money to flambe--and .