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n. - A medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands.

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Usage examples (36)
  • The mud in Flanders is of the most oozy description.
  • Practically the term Flanders or Flemish lace can be applied to all the laces made in Flanders and Belgium of the earliest periods.
  • To land in French Flanders it is her wish'd design
  • This carmel had been founded in Flanders at the time of the Reformation.
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