Word: flambeaux
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole was lighted up by flambeaux, and was repeatedly cheered along the route...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-If more suggestions in regard to the torchlight procession are still in order, I should like to suggest that the committee on torches be also empowered to procure a hundred or more flambeaux. These would cost but a trifle more than torches, and, in the possession of those who should want them, would add greatly to the novelty and effect of the college procession...