A person from Flanders; a Flemish person, often used in a diminutive or mildly derogatory sense.
From Flanders (historical region in Low Countries) plus diminutive suffix -kin. Used in English texts to refer to Flemish or Low Country people.
English texts from the 1600s-1700s used 'flanderkin' to describe Flemish merchants and weavers—these immigrants brought superior textile technology that eventually made English cloth-makers jealous and wealthy.
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