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IPA transcription: [f'lændɚz]

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Noun

  • 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.