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Flemish

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Flem·ish  (flmsh)
adj.
Of or relating to Flanders, the Flemings, or their language or culture.
n.
1. A group of Dutch dialects spoken in the southwestern Netherlands, northwest Belgium, and parts of northern France.
2. (used with a pl. verb) The Flemings.

[Middle English, probably from Middle Dutch Vlaemisch.]

Flemish [ˈflɛmɪʃ]
n
1. (Linguistics / Languages) one of the two official languages of Belgium, almost identical in form with Dutch
(Social Science / Peoples)
the (functioning as plural) the Flemings collectively
adj
(Placename) (Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) of, relating to, or characteristic of Flanders, the Flemings, or their language
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Flemish - an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium
ethnic group, ethnos - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
2.Flemish - one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch
Dutch - the West Germanic language of the Netherlands
Adj.1.Flemish - of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture; "the Flemish population of Belgium"; "Flemish painters"
Translations
Flemish [ˈflemɪʃ]
A. ADJflamenco
B. N (Ling) → flamenco m
Flemish [ˈflɛmɪʃ]
adjflamand(e)
n
(= language) → flamand m
the Flemish (= people) → les Flamands mpl
Flemish
adjflämisch
n
the Flemish pldie Flamen pl
(Ling) → Flämisch nt
Flemish [ˈflɛmɪʃ]
1. adjfiammingo/a
2. n
a. (language) → fiammingo
b. (people) the Flemish npli Fiamminghi

Flemish [ˈflɛmɪʃ]
1. adjfiammingo/a
2. n
a. (language) → fiammingo
b. (people) the Flemish npli Fiamminghi


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It was barely two days since the last cavalcade of that nature, that of the Flemish ambassadors charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
Green, reedy swamps; fields fertile but flat, cultivated in patches that made them look like magnified kitchen-gardens; belts of cut trees, formal as pollard willows, skirting the horizon; narrow canals, gliding slow by the road-side; painted Flemish farmhouses; some very dirty hovels; a gray, dead sky; wet road, wet fields, wet house-tops: not a beautiful, scarcely a picturesque object met my eye along the whole route; yet to me, all was beautiful, all was more than picturesque.
 
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