A flambeau was a torch or flame – especially of the sort used in a procession. As a decoration it was a flame shape, sometimes springing from an urn. The design of that nature was used as a decorative finial from the end of the 17th century and throughout the 18th.
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ReplyDeleteI was trying to remember yesterday why Flambeau sounded familiar. I knew it was the name of either a villain or a detective in some book. Today I remembered - he's in Chesterton's Father Brown stories. When I checked Wikipedia I found that he was first villain, then detective. Father Brown reformed him...
ReplyDeleteGosh, Monica, I read a lot of the Father Brown stories at one time but certainly hadn't remembered Flambeau.
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