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▪ I. † ˈfleming2 Obs. rare.
Also 8 flemming.
[Strictly only a use of prec., the continental names of the flamingo (Sp. flamenco, Fr. flamant) being popularly confused with the homophones = Fleming1, and hence rendered by the same word. (In quot. 1591 prob. Fleming1 was intended.)]
= flamingo.
[1530Palsgr., Flemmyng, flammant. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Flamenco, a fleming, a kinde of birde like a shoueler.] 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lix. (1737) 244 Flemmings, Cignets.
▪ II. ˈfleming3 dial.
In 7 flemminge.
A local name of the soft clam (Mya arenaria).
1603Owen Pembrokesh. (1892) 126 Cockles, fflemminges, welkes. [Still in local use. (Editor's note).] |