Flanders

[ flan-derz ]

/ ˈflæn dərz /

noun

a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.

Example sentences from the Web for flanders

The Great War claimed many more victims long after the torn, corpse-strewn landscape of France and Flanders had healed.

Wounds of World War I Have Yet to Heal |Michael F. Bishop |June 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This tapestry was woven in Flanders in about 1500 for a noble French client.

Unicorn, the Luxury Meat |Blake Gopnik |July 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Edward had crossed the Channel to put an army ashore in Flanders.

The Day the Sea Ran Red: The Battle of Sluys |Dan Jones |May 6, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Flanders was overrun by the French, and Queen Philippa had been taken hostage in Ghent.

The Day the Sea Ran Red: The Battle of Sluys |Dan Jones |May 6, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.

Lessons from Another War |Christopher Buckley |November 12, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
During the next ten years he assumed the general direction of the war in Flanders and in Spain.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) |John Richard Green
He immediately went to live with his uncle, the Earl of Flanders.

Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. I. (of III) |Rosalie Kaufman
Flanders stated the fact without any degree of positiveness as he rubbed three fingers cautiously down his cheek.

Leerie |Ruth Sawyer
The trade with the cities of northwestern France was similar to that with the neighboring towns of Flanders.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England |Edward Potts Cheyney
The tribunal collected some other evidence against Vergara and industriously searched for more, even as far as Flanders.

A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 |Henry Charles Lea

British Dictionary definitions for flanders

Flanders

/ (ˈflɑːndəz) /

noun

a powerful medieval principality in the SW part of the Low Countries, now in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders, the Netherlands province of Zeeland, and the French department of the Nord; scene of battles in many wars

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