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Belgian

Belgian \Bel"gi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Belgium. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Belgium.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Belgian

1620s, in reference to the ancient Belgæ (see Belgium). Belgian Congo formed 1908 by annexation.

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Belgian (disambiguation)

Belgian or Belgia refer to something or someone of, or related to, Belgium.

It may also refer to:

  • A person from Belgium, or of Belgian descent. For information about the Belgian people, see Belgians, Demographics of Belgium and Culture of Belgium. For specific persons, see List of Belgians
  • Belgian language, an extinct language formerly spoken in Gallia Belgica
    • Belgian Dutch and Belgian French, variants of Dutch and French, respectively
  • Belgian (horse), breed of heavy horse
  • Belgian cuisine
  • Belgian waffle, in culinary contexts
  • SS Belgian, a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934
  • SS Belgia, a passenger ship in service with the Gotha Line from 1930 to 1941

Usage examples of "belgian".

Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.

This was a calculated decision to co-opt the Belgian elite who had led the revolt against the Austrians and avoid alienating the majority of the population by extending French anticlericalism to one of the most fervently pious Catholic populations in Europe.

The three armies in which the generals held command would soon attack in an area known as the Ardennes, the sector of the front straddling the Belgian border due west of Koblenz.

After that they moved in the immigrants, the Sephardic Jews from Spain, Belgian and French craftsmen, then the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.

Muammar Baraka listened to the endless reports that had been typed in triplicate by British typists on German typewriters with electricity supplied by American generators run by Belgian mechanics.

Belgian, as an elderly red-faced lady, with fuzzy sandy hair, wearing a dingy, many-flounced lilac barege gown, came towards them along the gravel path.

Belgian friend, coming up to him at the end of a polka, with the elderly Countess, who with her dingy lilac barege gown exchanged for a dingier lilac silk, and her sandy hair fuzzier than ever, had been dancing vigorously.

You chiffonade Belgian endive for eight hours, and you might get some idea what my life is like.

It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.

Not a long-haired Belgian Groenendael, but a short-haired German shepherd.

Max Anders, the officer in charge of Security in this headquarters, was a captain in the Belgian army.

English citizen - had scurried off for the French, Belgian and Dutch frontiers, none of them wishing to be interned in case of war.

There are many to choose from, but as a Belgian Jansenist, Ed is the least Catholic Catholic we are likely to find, and at least we know something about him.

Belgians whatever the hell they are, syndicate registered in Liechtenstein like some Liberian freighter buying into everything they look God damn peas spilling on the, can you move this?

British divisions, stretched from the end of the Maginot Line near Longwy to the Belgian frontier, and behind the frontiers to the sea in front of Dunkirk.