Obs. rare. Also 8 flemming. [Strictly only a use of prec., the continental names of the flamingo (Sp. flamenco, Fr. flamant) being popularly confused with the homophones = FLEMING1, and hence rendered by the same word. (In quot. 1591 prob. FLEMING1 was intended.)] = FLAMINGO.
[1530. Palsgr., Flemmyng, flammant.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Flamenco, a fleming, a kinde of birde like a shoueler.]
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lix. (1737), 244. Flemmings, Cignets.
