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Prince's Flag

Prince's Flag proper noun: a Dutch historical flag, originally used by the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War, with three horizontal stripes: orange, white, and blue.

prince's flag: a Dutch historical flag, originally used by the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War, with...
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Proper noun

Prince's Flag

  1. A Dutch historical flag, originally used by the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War, with three horizontal stripes: orange, white, and blue.

Origin of Prince's Flag

A calque of the Dutch prinsenvlag, from prins (“prince”) + vlag (“flag”), so called because it was based on the Flag of Prince William of Orange-Nassau.

Questions about Prince's Flag

What does Prince's Flag mean?
Prince's Flag means a Dutch historical flag, originally used by the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years War, with three horizontal stripes: orange, white, and blue.
What part of speech is Prince's Flag?
Prince's Flag is a proper noun.

Words near Prince's Flag in the dictionary

  1. Prince Valiant
  2. Prince Valiants
  3. Prince William County
  4. Prince William Sound
  5. prince's feather
  6. Prince's Flag
  7. prince's metal
  8. prince's pine
  9. prince's pines
  10. prince's plume
  11. prince's plumes

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