From West Germanic*falawiska, refashioned under the influence offlamme(“flame”).

• IPA^(key): /fla.mɛʃ/

flammèche f (pluralflammèches)

1. spark (detached from burning material)
   • 1857,Gustave Flaubert,Madame Bovary […] ‎^[1], Paris:Michel Lévy Frères; republished asEleanor Marx, transl.,Madame Bovary,1886:

     M. Binet m'a certifié que les mesures étaient prises. Nulleflammèche ne sera tombée. Les pompes sont pleines. Allons dormir.

     “Monsieur Binet has assured me that all precautions have been taken. Nosparks have fallen; the pumps are full. Let us go to rest.”

• “flammèche”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

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