a. Obs. exc. arch. Forms: 4–5 flaunderich, -drissh(e, -dryssh, 9 flaundrish. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] = FLEMISH.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 271.
| In Motlee and hye on horse he sat | |
| Vp on his heed a fflaundryssh Beuere hat. |
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 480. The Gentlemans seruant, a Flandrish Fleming, standing at his Maisters backe, and adhering to all the Governours Relations, was astonished, to heare of a sakelesse Stranger, to have indured, and to indure such damnable Murther and Cruelty.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 234. These accused the old governor [Peter Stuyvesant] of being highly aristocratical, and in truth there seems to have been some ground for such an accusation; for he carried himself with a lofty, soldier-like air, and was somewhat particular in his dress, appearing, when not in uniform, in rich apparel of the antique flaundrish cut, and was especially noted for having his sound leg (which was a very comely one) always arrayed in a red stocking and high-heeled shoe.
