[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.
| Three Night-Gowns of rich Indian Stuff, | |
| Four Cushion-Cloths are scarce enough, | |
| Of Point, and Flanders, nor forget | |
| Slippers embroidered on Velvet. |
1718. Cibber, Nonjuror, II. ii. Does he keep his Chariot and Berlin, with six flouncing Flanders?
2. attrib. as Flanders chest, flax, lace (whence -laced), mare, shape, wagon. b. Flanders brick = Bath-brick; † Flanders color, ? tawny orange; Flanders counter: see COUNTER sb.3 3; † Flanders-fortunes, -pieces (see quots.); † Flanders tile (a) = Flanders brick; (b) = Dutch tile.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, *Flanders-brick, a soft brick used for cleaning knives.
1875. Ure’s Dict. Arts, II. 401. Flanders Bricks, commonly called Bath bricks.
[1433. Nottingham Rec., II. 140. Unam cistam Flaundr’, pretii iijs. iiijd.]
1460. Inv., in Ripon Ch. Acts, 365. De j *flandyrs kist, 3s.
1652. Inv. Thomas 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 in a sunbeam gold, white and murrey, and his pensils *Flanders colour.
1557. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 158. In the Halle ij *flanders counters wth ther carpetts xxs.
1842. McCulloch, Dict. Commerce, s.v., Flax, *Flanders or Dutch flax is well dressed, and 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: | |
| Four pair of Bas de foy shot through | |
| With Silver, Diamond Buckles too, | |
| For Garters, and as Rich for Shoo. |
1686. Lond. Gaz., No. 2170/4. An open *Flanders.lac’d Neckcloth.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past. I. v. 505.
| To clappe a well-wrought shooe (for more then pay) | |
| Vpon a stubborne Nagge of Galloway; | |
| Or vnback’d Iennet, or a *Flaunders Mare. |
1816. Scott, Old Mort., ii. The lord lieutenant of the county (a personage of ducal rank) alone pretended to the magnificence of a wheel-carriage, a thing covered with tarnished gilding and sculpture, in shape like the vulgar picture of Noah’s ark, dragged by eight long-tailed Flanders mares, bearing eight insides and six outsides.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, *Flanders-pieces, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand.
1664. Dryden, The 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. If you would haue great Egges, Leoncus teacheth to beate in powder Bricke, or Flaunders Tyle, and mingling it with Chesyll and Wine to make it in Dowe, and geue it to your Henne.
1600–1. Trinity Coll. Acc., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 483. For 33 flaunders tyles to paue the chimney in the Mrs great chamber.
1876. Voyle, A Military Dictionary (ed. 3), 140/2. *Flanders Wagon—A wagon suited to the transport of all light stores, and though still in existence, is of an obsolete pattern.
