Flanders n.
used in combs. stereotyping the Dutch as mean, hypocritical or deceitful.
In compounds
a relatively small fortune or inheritance.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flanders-fortunes, of small Substance. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
a painting that looks good from a distance but not so good close to.
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flanders-pieces, Pictures that look fair at a distance, but coarser near at Hand. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
spending money in a place that has no links to the place where one received the money.
 | If You Know Not Me, You Know No Body (1874) I 271: Spend it! God send me but once to finger it, and if I doe not make a Flanders reckoning on’t – and that is, as I haue heard mad wagges say, receiue it here, and reuell it away in another place. |