Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Flanders, the Flemings, or their language or culture.
- noun A group of Dutch dialects spoken in the southwestern Netherlands, northwest Belgium, and parts of northern France.
- noun The Flemings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To coil, as a rope, in a Flemish coil. See
coil , n. - To make a quivering movement of the tail: said of a dog; to feather.
- Pertaining or native to Flanders, or pertaining to its people or their language; resembling the Flemings.
- noun Collectively, the people of Flanders; the Flemings.
- noun The language spoken by the Flemings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
- adjective (Naut.), [Humorous] short or deficient accounts.
- adjective (Bot.) a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side.
- adjective (Arch.) See
Bond , n., 8. - adjective a hard yellow paving brick.
- adjective a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other.
- adjective (Naut.) an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other.
- adjective (Naut.) an additional footrope at the end of a yard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
Flanders , either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces ofWest Flanders andEast Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region ofBelgium . - adjective Of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language.
- proper noun The
Dutch language as it is spoken inFlanders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch
- noun an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium
- adjective of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"It's not a term Flemish speakers would use to describe the French," said Hugo Coorevits of the Belgian sports paper Nieuwsblad.
VeloNews 2010
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I want them to be fluent in Flemish and to pronounce Antwerpen with a hint of vh embedded in the w.
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Perhaps someone has the instructions in Flemish for cropping in photoshop?
slim, sexy en druk 2007
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Flemish is the name for our variant of the language, as differ British English and American English.
slim, sexy en druk 2007
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None that I saw mention that although he was originally a canon of the Tongerlo Abbey [the link is in Flemish, but the pictures are worth the visit] in recent years he had transferred to St. Michael's Abbey in Orange, California and died a member of that community.
02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003 John 2003
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Soeur Gabrielle Rosnet is a small round active woman, with a shrewd and ruddy face of the type that looks out calmly from the dark background of certain Flemish pictures.
Fighting France 1915
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Detached translations also exist in Italian, Flemish, and Bohemian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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There were no artists of importance after the time of Rubens and his followers whom we call Flemish artists.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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Then went the innocent into the chamber of his wife, whom he thought more beautiful than the Virgin Mary painted in Italian, Flemish, and other pictures, at whose feet he had said his prayers.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"[Treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea with a suspension of donor faeces]" (in Dutch; Flemish).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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