char vs flambé

char

noun
  • A charred substance. 

  • A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady. 

  • An odd job, a chore or piece of housework. 

  • A character (text element such as a letter or symbol). 

  • One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus. 

verb
  • To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant. 

  • To burn something to charcoal. 

  • To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. 

  • To work or hew (stone, etc.) 

flambé

noun
  • A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

  • A flambéed dish. 

adj
  • Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides. 

  • Being, or having been, flambéed. 

verb
  • To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

How often have the words char and flambé occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )