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  • adjective From, of, or pertaining to, Ghent.

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Examples

  • Her escapist fantasies feature kynlíf með álfum, Ghentish snails, and a theremin; and yes, someday she will escape.

    a.rawlings reads Donato Mancini Lemon Hound 2008

  • Her escapist fantasies feature kynlíf með álfum, Ghentish snails, and a theremin; and yes, someday she will escape.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Philip appeared in person at a meeting of the _collace_, or municipal assembly, and delivered a harangue to the Ghentish magistrates and burghers, flattering them, moreover, by using their vernacular.

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • Philip appeared in person at a meeting of the collace, or municipal assembly, and delivered a harangue to the Ghentish magistrates and burghers, flattering them, moreover, by using their vernacular.

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

  • Also two large fine Flanders bedticks, and two pair of large superfine blankets, two fine damask tablecloths and napkins, and forty - three ells36 of Ghentish sheeting Holland.

    Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

  • It is impossible to look up at one of these monuments, grim and solitary, without feeling the whole spirit of the Belgian history, and calling up Philip van Artevelde and the Ghentish troubles.

    A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • Cloths and Napkins, and 43 Ells of Ghentish Sheeting Holland ....

    Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

  • There, too, where every one could see those emblems of the artisans 'corporate strength, fluttered fifty-two banners unfurled before the deans of the Ghentish _métiers_. [

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • There, too, where every one could see those emblems of the artisans 'corporate strength, fluttered fifty-two banners unfurled before the deans of the Ghentish metiers. [

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

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