flemish
flemish Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to Flanders, its people, their culture, or their Dutch-based language.
"The museum recently acquired a stunning seventeenth-century Flemish tapestry."
• noun
The West Germanic varieties and standard form of the Dutch language spoken in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium.
"Many residents of Brussels are bilingual, speaking both French and Flemish fluently."
The people of Flanders collectively, an ethnic group native to northern Belgium who speak Flemish.
"Historically, the Flemish were renowned across Europe as master weavers and cloth merchants."
• verb
To coil a rope neatly flat on a deck in concentric circles, with the end in the middle (in nautical usage).
"The deckhand carefully flemished the halyard on the teak deck after raising the mainsail."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English Flemysh, borrowed from Middle Dutch Vlaemsch, relating to Flanders, an area historically spanning parts of modern-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.