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
- And Flemish have not top weight.
- In the Flemish style, they adorn the sides of the chapel.
- The Flemish viceroy of Naples knelt to the defeated king.
- Thus it appeared that the Flemish word was somehow aberrant Dutch.
- An important part of Flemish history is based on speaking Flemish.
- He is the biographer of the Flemish theologian Edward Schillebeeckx.
- The concept of Flemish as a language of the Flemish people is misleading.
- You do speak Flemish, but there is no such thing as 'the Flemish language'.
- The Checkered Giant is outweighed by the Giant Chinchilla and Flemish Giant.
- Thus it appeared that the Flemish word was somehow an aberration of the Dutch.
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