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IPA transcription: [f'lændɚz]
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Noun
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a medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands
Usage examples
- He also entrusted him with diplomatic negotiations with Flanders and England.
- Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix are notable cobbled classics.
- His mother was Mathilde of Flanders.
- Large parts of Flanders and Brabant were later occupied again by the Spanish king.
- Instead, they chose Baldwin of Flanders.
- Elsewhere in Europe, he designed churches and palaces in France, Germany and Flanders.
- The following day, she sank the first ship credited to the Flanders Flotilla.
- Locally it is referred to as "the other Bruges in Flanders".
- Jack Flanders is the ninth.
- The west end of Great Peconic Bay is also called Flanders Bay.