Definitions for Flemish

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Flemish Flem·ish

Spelling: [flem-ish]

IPA: /ˈflɛm ɪʃ/

Flemish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in Flemish (efhilms).

Definitions for Flemish

noun

1. the people of Flanders collectively; the Flemings.
2. the Dutch language as spoken in northern Belgium: one of the official languages of Belgium. Abbreviation: Flem., Flem.

adjective

1. of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.
2. pertaining to or designating the style of art, especially painting, as developed principally in Flanders and northern France during the 15th century, chiefly characterized by sharply delineated forms, naturalistic proportions, clear, usually cool colors, and the use of perspective.

Origin of Flemish

1275-1325; Middle English Middle Dutch Vlaemsch, equivalent to Vlaem- (see Fleming) + -sch -ish¹

Examples for Flemish

Formaketh, literally adopted from the Flemish vermaect, repairs.

In 1998, Bill Gates was meeting with Flemish Minister and President Van den Brande when he got a pie in the kisser.

Lucas spoke to him in Flemish to explain his own return with the English prentice.

I pretended to see in this, perhaps, the work of the Flemish States.

The English and their Flemish allies cheered and celebrated the victory in disbelief.

She thanked them volubly in Flemish, which they did not understand.

It is not a cargo of Flemish skins that is coming for the old man.

In elections last May, however, the Flemish separatists won big, which could eventually pave the way to a partitioned nation.

Shakespeare had one, as did the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, whom the Van Dyke was named after.

Like most Flemish productions, the reredos is wanting in grace.