Lexicographical Neighbors of Flambeaus
Literary usage of Flambeaus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Tractarian Movement by Edward George Kirwin Browne (1856)
"... conceived the idea of a masquerade with flambeaus, in derision of that captive
Papacy which they imagined they had for ever destroyed. ..."
2. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz: Being the Observations He by Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz, Stephen Whatley (1737)
"... more than a couple of little dark Lanthorns, which are here made ufe of commonly.
This way of going with eight flambeaus puts me in mind of a certain ..."
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