Belgiann.adj.

1571 E. Newcomen tr. Def. & True Declar. Thinges done in Lowe Countrey sig. G.i^v They make a glorious pretence, as though all the Belgians were Lutherans, rebelles, and traytors to the kyngs maiesty.

a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 418 A number of strangers, Polonians, Dences, Belgians and Frenchmen, schollars, wha..cam to the Universitie of St Androis that yeir.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Belgeans, People of the low Countries, Somerset-shire, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

1701 E. Settle Scaffold Westminster-Hall 7 The erring Belgians are most Criminal Heads.

1795 tr. in Scots Mag. Oct. 665/1 It is important to us that the Belgeans and people of Liege shall be no further free but as they shall become French.

1815 W. Scott Let. Aug. (1933) IV. 81 The Brunswickers and Hanoverians behaved very well; the Belgians but sorrily enough.

1830 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 5 Oct. Ghent, and all the towns in Flanders, are said to have declared in favour of the Belgians.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 708/2 Adolphe Sax, a Belgian established in Paris, who invented the family of saxophones.

1914 Eng. Rev. Sept. 258 We saw young Belgians crowded in trains en route for the front, men who were ‘called up’ against the enemy.

1978 News (Medicine Hat, Alberta) 15 July 5/3 There was a wad of black-market money in the pocket, obtained from a hard-faced Belgian who claimed he was once a mercenary in the Congo.

2010 T. Blair Journey (2011) vi. 180 The Belgian mathematician d'Hondt..can be added to the proud list of famous Belgians.

1586 tr. J. F. Salvart Harmony Confessions Faith sig. ¶¶ ij^v Receiue with a Christian minde..this most sure token & earnest of the euerlasting friendship of the French and Belgian [L. Belgicarum] Churches with you.

1651 in R. Watkins Newes from Dead 9 That Belgian Headsman, whose rare artfull hand Could slice off heads.

1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lxxxiv. 52 Two grapling Ætna's on the Ocean meet, And English fires with Belgian flames contend.

1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 34 The Belgian stove beneath her Footstool glows.

a1750 M. D'Assigny Coll. of Poems (1763) V. 115 Then studious reads what Belgian authors writ, And drains whole nomenclators for their wit.

1830 Standard 5 Oct. The Belgian nation separates itself from Holland, to form a free confederate state.

1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. vi. 53 Belgian flags, of yellow, red, and black.

1882 Society 7 Oct. 5/1 One of the latest forms of amusement at French and Belgian seaside resorts is ‘crab-racing’.

1905 W. H. Simmonds Pract. Grocer III. 88 Limburger is a Belgian cheese of the soft class, which is allowed to ripen before use.

1950 M. L. Coit John C. Calhoun xxii. 373 The bulky letters with the Belgian postmark, addressed in Anna Maria's angular, illegible script.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Sept. d6/2 Dozens of Belgian breweries make excellent versions of Trappist ales.

1821 Amer. Farmer 5 Oct. 222/3 The Belgian horses are excellent in size, shape, and condition.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species v. 165 I am not at all satisfied with this theory, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as the heavy Belgian cart-horse, Welch ponies,..&c.

1903 N.Y. Times 28 July 9/1 Thoroughbred Belgian stallions bring fancy prices to their owners.

1951 E. M. Graham My Window looks down East iv. 31 I saw Carl Urlichson bringing home his fishing boat from the shore on sled runners drawn by a big Belgian horse.

1983 L. R. Miller & K. Gilman Horses at Work 92 (caption) Jess Ross..drives his good Belgian team on a buck rake.

1998 New Yorker 27 July 62/1 It had once housed teams of great blue Percherons and Belgian draft horses.

1856 N.Y. Daily Times 30 July 7/1 Workmen have begun to pile up in the lower end of Chatham-street..large heaps of the Belgian blocks, preparatory to laying down a new pavement.

1902 Pop. Sci. Jan. 110/1 At this point we rolled onto the Belgian block pavement.

1963 Life Mar. 57/2 They range from smooth concrete down through Belgian block streets to country roads best described as ‘linked potholes’.

2005 New Yorker 7 Feb. 77/1 A bridge that his father..had helped to build, hauling blue-tinged Belgian blocks and tamping them between the trolley tracks.

1917 Live Stock Jrnl. 23 Nov. 331/2 With black-and-white cows he [sc. Mr Nerinckx] obtained grey-blue calves. Several of those have been used to improve the Belgian Blue breed known as the 'Bleu de Mons'.

1957 I. L. Mason World Dict. Breeds Livestock (Suppl.) 7 Central and Upper Belgian... syn. Belgian Blue.

1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 34/1 Notable prices at a monthly store cattle sale at Norwich were $440 for an eight-month-old Belgian Blue, [etc.].

2008 Independent 7 Jan. (Extra section) 4/2 Another area of concern for welfare campaigners has been the development of ‘double-muscled breeds’, such as Belgian Blue.

1854 G. Read Compl. Biscuit & Gingerbread Baker's Assistant (ed. 2) vii. 107 Belgian Buns.—3 lbs. of flour, 1 lb. 2 oz. of butter, 1 lb. 10 oz. of powdered loaf sugar, [etc.].

1947 A. R. Daniel Bakery Materials & Methods xxiv. 410 (heading) Belgian buns... The buns..may also be cut and filled with boiled, cooled, vanilla custard.

2007 N. Chalk Because of You xiii. 13 It was her role to make sure all customers who sat in that area had a coffee, a Belgian bun and were comfortable.

1862 Morning Post 5 Nov. 1/5 Belgian chocolate prize medal.

1958 Times 24 Nov. 11/3 In the sweet department here are the Belgian chocolates made with fresh cream and butter which are specially brought over.

1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 25 Mar. 7 The advertisement features a black girl and a white man..having oral fun with a tub of Belgian chocolate ice cream.

2014 T. Wilson Unmasking Juliet v. 74 She'd used a beautiful mixture of dark Belgian chocolate, and topped it off with a heavy dusting of luminescent, edible gold glitter.

1894 Gardening 1 Mar. 200/1 I have eaten in Europe a vegetable tasting somewhat like celery (but the end of the stalk looking more like asparagus) that I was told was ‘Belgian endive’.

1952 E. David French Country Cooking 169 These are the Belgian endives or chicory, as they are sometimes called in England—the long smooth ones.

2005 enRoute (Air Canada) Nov. 34/4 Whole roasted Maine lobster with caramelized Belgian endive and orange milk chocolate emulsion at the Berkshires' Wheatleigh hotel.

1861 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 7 May 108/1 The next on my list of large Rabbits is the Belgian Hare-coloured Rabbit, large quantities of which are imported, known and sold as French Hare-rabbits.]

1867 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 31 Oct. 342/2 For table purposes you will find no cross so good as the Belgian Hare Rabbit.

1872 C. Rayson Rabbits for Prizes & Profit i. 28 Belgian hares, Patagonians, and silver greys, are more successfully reared in open outside hutches.

1919 Everybody's Poultry Mag. Sept. 614/3 It was formerly called the Belgian hare rabbit, a name since contracted to Belgian hare.

1995 D. M. Warren Small Animal Care & Managem. ix. 209 Contrary to its name, the Belgian Hare is a true rabbit.

1901 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 579/1 Belgian sheep-dogs of the long-haired ‘Picard’ variety, and the more common short and wire-haired animals, were drafted from the neighboring country.

1905 Rev. of Reviews 32 80/1 They [sc. police dogs in Belgium] are of the Belgian sheep-dog breed, black, rough-coated, handsome animals.

1947 C. L. B. Hubbard Working Dogs of World 104 The Malinois forms one of the three main groups of Belgian Sheepdogs.

1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 53 In the U.S.A. only the Groenandael is called Belgian Sheepdog.

2003 J. Katz New Work of Dogs viii. 154 A sleek black Belgian sheepdog she'd already named Chaos.

1901 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 576/1 (caption) A night guard with a stiff-haired Belgian shepherd dog wearing its entire outfit.

1971 Times 28 June 24/6 (advt.) Pedigree Groenendael (Belgian Shepherd) puppies.

1993 Dogs Monthly July 21/2 The Belgian shepherd Dog is one breed with four acceptable variations of coat and/or colour: Groenendael (long coated black); Tervueren (long coated other than black..); Malinois (short coated, fawn to red with black mask and overlay); Laekenois (rough coated, reddish fawn with black shading, principally on muzzle and tail).

2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Aug. 52/2 As we walk toward the shed, a Belgian Shepherd begins barking furiously.

1848 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 27 Nov. 3/6 (advt.) 80 pcs wool blk, cadet, fancy Belgian style, plaid, brown new style mixed cassimers.

1908 Sioux Valley (Correctionville, Iowa) News 17 Dec. 5/4 (advt.) Fancy Vase Stand Lamps with Belgian Style Burners.

1933 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 14 Mar. 6/3 The group decided to adopt a Belgian style cap which was designed by Eugene Miller.

1952 Economist 1 Mar. 537/1 An increasing amount of Belgian-style laisser faire in its [sc. the Dutch government's] practical policies.

1983 N.Y. Times 9 Feb. c2/5 The machine is designed for Belgian-style waffles, which generally are thicker and have deeper ridges than regular ones.

2013 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 28 Aug. 65 With tuna or salmon try a light Belgian-style beer as the subtle spiciness and tartness complements meatier fishes perfectly.