Flanders
(ˈflɑːndəz, -æ-)
[ad. Du. Vlaanderen pl.; the name of an ancient countship now divided between Belgium, France, and Holland.]
† 1. Short for: a. Flanders-lace; b. Flanders-horse.
| 1690 Evelyn Mundus Muliebris 3 Four Cushion-Cloths are scarce enough, Of Point, and Flanders. 1718 Cibber Nonjuror ii. ii, Does he keep his Chariot and Berlin, with six flouncing Flanders? |
2. attrib. as
a. Flanders chest,
Flanders field,
Flanders flax,
Flanders lace (whence
Flanders-laced),
Flanders make,
Flanders mare,
Flanders mud,
Flanders shape,
Flanders wagon.
b. Flanders baby, a small doll manufactured in the Low Countries to display fashionable dress, or for use in a puppet show;
Flanders brick = Bath-brick;
† Flanders colour, ? tawny orange;
Flanders counter: see
counter n.3 3;
Flanders doll = Flanders baby;
† Flanders-fortunes,
-pieces (see
quots.);
Flanders poppy, a poppy of Flanders, the emblem of the Allied soldiers who fell in the war of 1914–18; also, one of the artificial poppies worn in Britain on Remembrance Sunday, in November;
† Flanders tile, (
a)
= Flanders brick; (
b)
= Dutch tile.
| 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xix. 156 Yon *Flanders baby is no for a poor man's wife. 1899 A. M. Earle Child Life in Colonial Days xviii. 365 ‘Flanders babies’ had a cherished old age. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 206 Leslie Daiken considered that Dutch dolls, known in 17th- and 18th-century England as ‘Flanders babies’, and in America as ‘peg dolls’, really originated in the Thuringian Forest in Germany. |
| a 1700 Evelyn Diary an. 1670 22 July (1955) III. 555 Here my Lord & his Partner had built two or 3 roomes with *flanders white brick, very hard. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Flanders-brick. 1875 Ure's Dict. Arts II. 401 Flanders Bricks, commonly called Bath bricks. |
| [1433 Nottngham Rec. II. 140 Unam cistam Flaundr'.] 1460 Inv. in Ripon Ch. Acts 365 De j *flandyrs kist, 3s. 1652 Inv. T. Teanby of Barton-on-Humber (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), One fflaunders chist. |
| 1721 Strype Eccl. Mem. II. xii. 338 His standard an unicorn silver ermine..and his pensils *Flanders colour. |
| 1557 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 158 In the Halle ij *flanders counters w{supt}{suph} ther carpetts xxs. |
| 1801 Monthly Mirror Aug. 139 Her stage appearance..might be mistaken for a *Flander's doll, moved by wires. |
| 1915 J. McCrae in Punch 8 Dec. 468/3 In *Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row. |
| 1842 M{supc}Culloch Dict. Commerce s.v. Flax, *Flanders or Dutch flax is..of the finest quality. |
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Flanders-fortunes, of small Substance. |
| 1664 Newsman 26 May in Mrs. Palliser Lace vii. 102 A black lute-string gown with a black *Flanders lace. 1690 Evelyn Mundus Muliebris 3 With a broad Flanders Lace below. |
| 1686 Lond. Gaz. No. 2170/4 An open *Flanders.lac'd Neck⁓cloth. |
| 1799 Malthus Jrnl. 29 May (1966) 36 The country girls have a little of the *Flanders make in their persons. |
| 1613–16 W. Browne Brit. Past. i. v. 505 A stubborne Nagge of Galloway..or a *Flaunders Mare. 1816 Scott Old Mort. ii, A wheel-carriage..dragged by eight long⁓tailed Flanders mares. |
| 1918 Kipling in Metropolitan Dec. 46/2 One man lurched in—helmet, *Flanders mud, accoutrements and all. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England i. 13 An eleven-inch or eight-inch howitzer, both fortunately rare in Flanders mud. |
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Flanders-pieces, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand. |
| 1921 Times 21 Oct. 13/6 Australia, Canada, France, and the United States, as well as Newfoundland, have adopted the *Flanders poppy as the national remembrance flower. Ibid., All will be able to buy a Flanders poppy. Ibid. 29 Oct. 11/5 The King..has expressed his desire to include Flanders poppies in his wreath to be placed on the Cenotaph on that day. 1971 Guardian 21 May 2/8 Mr. Heath..laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe..a simple circle of Flanders poppies. |
| 1664 Dryden Rival Ladies iii. i, He lov'd that *Flanders shape, that lump of Earth And Phlegm together. |
| 1544 Liber Magnus C.C.C. Oxon. (MS.), Impensa sacelli It' pro oleo et *flawnderstele ad mundanda candelabra sacelli, iiij d. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 161 b, To beate in powder Bricke, or Flaunders Tyle. 1600–1 Trinity Coll. Acc. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 483 Flaunders tyles to paue the chimney in the..great chamber. |
| 1876 Voyle Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), *Flanders Wagon, a wagon suited to the transport of all light stores. |