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FIGURE FLAMBEE [1 record]

Record 1 1998-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
DEF

Figure resembling tongues of flame, as produced on surfaces in tangential section by a type of irregular wavy grain in Birch (particularly Betula verrucosa) termed masur Birch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Figure ressemblant à des flammes (langues de feu) apparaissant tangentiellement sur les surfaces de certaines essences telles que le bouleau.

OBS

Le Trésor de la langue française ne relie à aucune espèce de bois en particulier les acceptions de «flammé» et de «flambé».

OBS

Voir «flammé» dans la source OLFPAN, 1985, p. 13 et FO-29-18-2, 1987, p. 117F et «flambé» dans TLFRA, 1971, tome 8, p. 948.

Spanish

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