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adjective
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Ceramics.
a.
(of a glaze) dense and streaked with contrasting colors, usually red and blue.
b.
(of a ceramic object) covered with a flambé glaze.
verb (used with object)
3.
to pour liquor over and ignite.
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Flambe
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
flambe
1886, of certain types of porcelain, 1906 as a term in cookery, from Fr. flambé, pp. of flamber "to singe, blaze," from O.Fr. flambe "flame."
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