Flemish
['flɛmɪʃ]
Definition
(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.
(adj.) of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture; 'the Flemish population of Belgium'; 'Flemish painters' .
Editor: Will--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
(n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
Typist: Rosa
Definition
adj. of or belonging to the Flemings or people of Flanders or their language.—n. Flem′ing a native of Flanders.—Flemish school a school of painting formed by the brothers Van Eyck reaching its height in Rubens Vandyck and Teniers; Flemish stitch a stitch used in making certain kinds of point-lace.
Typed by Lesley
Examples
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Of part of the rough land he had made garden-ground, which he cultivated with singular, even with Flemish, exactness and care. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He had a big, blond, ruddy Flemish face and huge awkward peasant hands and he moved, with the dishes, as powerfully and awkwardly as a draft horse. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Flemish knave! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He sate on the roof of the cabin all day drinking Flemish beer, shouting for Isidor, his servant, and talking gallantly to the ladies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Have I a Flemish face--the clumsy nose standing out, the mean forehead falling back, the pale blue eyes 'à fleur de tête'? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She wants to form you in all things after the model of a Flemish school-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Never mind Mons and Leuze and the Flemish chaussées; do at Rome as the Romans do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Louis VI used bombards of great length and power against the Flemish in 1477, while as early as 1401 bronze cannon had been cast in several cities of West Prussia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Charlene