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Flanders

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Etymology

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From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plúma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

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Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

  1. The County of Flanders, a historical county of Europe, of varying extent.
  3. An administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.
    • 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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.
  5. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders.
  6. Ellipsis of French Flanders, a former province of France, now constituting the French department Nord.
  7. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
  8. A surname.
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