3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flemish \Flem"ish\, a. Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. -- n. The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. [1913 Webster] {Flemish accounts} (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous] --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Flemish beauty} (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. {Flemish bond}. (Arch.) See {Bond}, n., 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} (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. {Flemish horse} (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.] 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. [1913 Webster] 2. The German language. [1913 Webster] 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. [1913 Webster] {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low German}), spoken in many dialects. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Flemish adj : of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture; "the Flemish population of Belgium"; "Flemish painters" n 1: an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium 2: one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch [syn: {Flemish dialect}]
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