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Flanders|ˈflɑːndəz, -æ-|
[ad. Du. Vlaanderen pl.; the name of an ancient countship now divided between Belgium, France, and Holland.]
†1. Short for:
a. Flanders-lace;
b. Flanders-horse.
1690Evelyn Mundus Muliebris 3 Four Cushion-Cloths are scarce enough, Of Point, and Flanders. 1718Cibber Nonjuror ii. ii, Does he keep his Chariot and Berlin, with six flouncing Flanders?
2. attrib. as
a. Flanders chest, Flanders field, Flanders flax, Flanders lace (whence Flanders-laced), Flanders make, Flanders mare, Flanders mud, Flanders shape, Flanders wagon.
b. Flanders baby, a small doll manufactured in the Low Countries to display fashionable dress, or for use in a puppet show; Flanders brick = Bath-brick; † Flanders colour, ? tawny orange; Flanders counter: see counter n.3 3; Flanders doll = Flanders baby; † Flanders-fortunes, -pieces (see quots.); Flanders poppy, a poppy of Flanders, the emblem of the Allied soldiers who fell in the war of 1914–18; also, one of the artificial poppies worn in Britain on Remembrance Sunday, in November; † Flanders tile, (a) = Flanders brick; (b) = Dutch tile.
1823J. Galt Entail I. xix. 156 Yon *Flanders baby is no for a poor man's wife. 1899A. M. Earle Child Life in Colonial Days xviii. 365 ‘Flanders babies’ had a cherished old age. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 206 Leslie Daiken considered that Dutch dolls, known in 17th- and 18th-century England as ‘Flanders babies’, and in America as ‘peg dolls’, really originated in the Thuringian Forest in Germany.
a1700Evelyn Diary an. 1670 22 July (1955) III. 555 Here my Lord & his Partner had built two or 3 roomes with *flanders white brick, very hard. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Flanders-brick. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 401 Flanders Bricks, commonly called Bath bricks.
[1433Nottngham Rec. II. 140 Unam cistam Flaundr'.] 1460Inv. in Ripon Ch. Acts 365 De j *flandyrs kist, 3s. 1652Inv. T. Teanby of Barton-on-Humber (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), One fflaunders chist.
1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. xii. 338 His standard an unicorn silver ermine..and his pensils *Flanders colour.
1557Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 158 In the Halle ij *flanders counters wth ther carpetts xxs.
1801Monthly Mirror Aug. 139 Her stage appearance..might be mistaken for a *Flander's doll, moved by wires.
1915J. McCrae in Punch 8 Dec. 468/3 In *Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.
1842McCulloch Dict. Commerce s.v. Flax, *Flanders or Dutch flax is..of the finest quality.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Flanders-fortunes, of small Substance.
1664Newsman 26 May in Mrs. Palliser Lace vii. 102 A black lute-string gown with a black *Flanders lace. 1690Evelyn Mundus Muliebris 3 With a broad Flanders Lace below.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2170/4 An open *Flanders.lac'd Neck⁓cloth.
1799Malthus Jrnl. 29 May (1966) 36 The country girls have a little of the *Flanders make in their persons.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. v. 505 A stubborne Nagge of Galloway..or a *Flaunders Mare. 1816Scott Old Mort. ii, A wheel-carriage..dragged by eight long⁓tailed Flanders mares.
1918Kipling in Metropolitan Dec. 46/2 One man lurched in—helmet, *Flanders mud, accoutrements and all. 1933A. G. Macdonell England, their England i. 13 An eleven-inch or eight-inch howitzer, both fortunately rare in Flanders mud.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Flanders-pieces, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand.
1921Times 21 Oct. 13/6 Australia, Canada, France, and the United States, as well as Newfoundland, have adopted the *Flanders poppy as the national remembrance flower. Ibid., All will be able to buy a Flanders poppy. Ibid. 29 Oct. 11/5 The King..has expressed his desire to include Flanders poppies in his wreath to be placed on the Cenotaph on that day. 1971Guardian 21 May 2/8 Mr. Heath..laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe..a simple circle of Flanders poppies.
1664Dryden Rival Ladies iii. i, He lov'd that *Flanders shape, that lump of Earth And Phlegm together.
1544Liber Magnus C.C.C. Oxon. (MS.), Impensa sacelli It' pro oleo et *flawnderstele ad mundanda candelabra sacelli, iiij d. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 161 b, To beate in powder Bricke, or Flaunders Tyle. 1600–1Trinity Coll. Acc. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 483 Flaunders tyles to paue the chimney in the..great chamber.
1876Voyle Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), *Flanders Wagon, a wagon suited to the transport of all light stores. |