flemish

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Flem=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

flemish, a. 

 Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.  [1913 Webster]

Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous] Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8. -- Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. -- Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flemish, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to Flanders.
--n. the language of the Flemings.

Idiom

Flemish bond Building a bond in which each course consists of alternate headers and stretchers.

Etymology

MDu. Vlamisch (as FLEMING)