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▪ 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.).
c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 450 Take fygges..and frie hom, and flawme hom with honey. a1550Freiris of Berwik 137 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 289 Scho..bad the madin..To flawme, and turne, and rost thame tenderly. c1568Lauder Godlie Tractate 460 Euerie fatt Souch fedis and flammis ane vther. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xiii, The iron ladle, with which she had just been flambing (Anglicè, basting) the roast of mutton.
Proverb.1721Kelly 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. |