flemish
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western BelgiumType of ethnic group, ethnos
- one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to DutchSynonyms: Flemish dialectFlemish languageType of Dutch, Dutch language
Adjective (1)
- of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture“the Flemish population of Belgium”“Flemish painters”Relating to Flanders
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. — noun The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
Flemish accounts Nautical, short or deficient accounts. humorous Phila. 1881. Hamersly's Naval Encyclopaedia — Flemish beauty Botany, a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. — Flemish bond. Architecture See Bond, noun, 8. — Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. — Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. — Flemish eye Nautical, an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. — Flemish horse Nautical, an additional footrope at the end of a yard.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54