[a. F. flamant: see FLAMINGO.] A flamingo.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Flamet or Flammant, a large and fine Fowl, as big as a wild Goose, having the Legs and Neck very long, with so exquisite a Scent and quick Sight, that it is hard to be shot; insomuch that the Fowler is forc’d to get the Wind of them, and to creep along in an Ox-hide, till he be within Gun-shot.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xli. (1737), 166. A Phenicoptere (which in Languedoc they call Flaman).
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, II. i. II. 14. You would have said they had been Cranes, or Flamans (note a flame-coloured Bind with long red legs).
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
