flemish
IPA: fɫˈɛmɪʃ
Root Word: Flemish
noun
- Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
- West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
- (nautical) Short for Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”). [(nautical) A rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil.]
verb
- (transitive, nautical) Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil.
adjective
- Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
- Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
- Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
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Examples of "flemish" in Sentences
- But all the rest what come from Flanders is Flemish (flemish beer, flemish food, …).
- Talking tdf, you have to read the latest from Bruyneel's website as google-translated from the flemish.
- Giant T by admin on May. 28, 2009, under Uncategorized when can i start potty training my flemish giant?
- LOL Dutch will also say they aren't flemish but the main difference is one is protestant and one is Catholic.
- We then samples flemish food and drink which was erm... pretty much like my nans cooking to be honest - they even do beef in beer!
- Thing is I come from Antwerp (in the flemish part of Belgium – very nice city by the way), and I found out about your blog in the Knack-article from last week.
- I would use the velosynth, If I could plug in an earpiece and program it to yell at me that I suck in flemish or italian, especially when trying to bridge up to a break.
- I hope to finish the posting of the articles related to the franco-flemish school (which is almost done) and to pass to Italian composers of the Renaissance (rather than the gigantic Palestrina).
- Raman just e-mailed me with the news that there is a reading this Saturday 20th August by flemish poet Germain Droogenbroodt who is currently working on a project to translate and publish contemporary Malay poetry.
- But as opposed to flemish which is also an ethnicity, Esperanto is an interest/hobby/ideology/lifestyle that is chosen except of course for the aforementioned native speakers and as such different from the ethnically based concept of culture.
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