flemish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.

   “But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
3. sıfat Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
4. özel isim Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
5. özel isim West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
6. isim Ellipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).

   “Frequently fancy Flemishes are made, for example, with a regular Flemish coil in the center and the rest of the line placed in various shapes about it but always so as to retain the appearance of a mat.”

7. fiil Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil.

   “In about twenty minutes, after the messenger had been stowed away, the cables coiled in the tiers, and the ropes flemished down on deck, the captain made his appearance, and directed the first-lieutenant to send aft the newly impressed men.”