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Flandrian, a. and n.|ˈflɑːndrɪən, -æ-|
[f. Flanders + -ian.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to Flanders or its inhabitants. rare.
b. Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating the period since the retreat of the ice sheet and the rise in sea-level at the end of the last glaciation in northwestern Europe.
B. n.
a. An inhabitant of Flanders. rare.
b. Geol. The Flandrian period.
1637J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure ii. D2. 62 Celestina. But some one noble bloud or lusty kindred, Claps in, with his gilt coach, and Flandrian trotters, And hurries her away to be a Countesse. 1670in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) No. 52, Proud France! no more thy Flandrian Conquests borst [sic]. 1886J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 163/2 Flandrians, Flemings. 1934R. A. Daly Changing World of Ice Age v. 169 Table XXII..includes the Flandrian stage, named by him [sc. Dubois] to represent the time and processes involved by the melting of the last great Pleistocene ice-caps. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxiii. 421 The evidence of emergence during the last glaciation, followed by the great submergence, which has been called by Dubois the ‘Flandrian transgression’. 1952Proc. Prehist. Soc. XVIII. 109 It would be particularly useful to associate the three stages of the Flandrian transgression with mesolithic or neolithic industries. 1958F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) 100 Interglacial beach deposits..to the east of Calais, round the corner where the Flandrian plains begin. 1968R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. xii. 281 Many raised bogs show the development of Sphagnum peats during the middle Flandrian, above earlier lake sediments. 1971Nature 1 Jan. 43/2 The survival of the Teesdale rarities through the Flandrian period. |