flambé vs smudge

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. 

smudge

noun
  • Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. 

  • A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation. 

  • A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. 

  • A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. 

verb
  • To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging). 

  • To stifle or smother with smoke. 

  • To soil or smear with dirt. 

  • To obscure by blurring; to smear. 

  • To use dense smoke to protect from insects. 

  • To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). 

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