flambé vs mantle

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. 

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. 

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. 

mantle

noun
  • The zone of hot gases around a flame. 

  • A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection. 

  • The layer between the Earth's core and crust. 

  • A penstock for a water wheel. 

  • A mantling. 

  • A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) 

  • The back of a bird together with the folded wings. 

  • The cerebral cortex. 

  • The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. 

  • Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. 

  • A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) 

  • The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. 

  • A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel 

verb
  • To climb over or onto something. 

  • To become covered or concealed. 

  • To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). 

  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. 

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