Flandersʹ Babies.

The wooden jointed dolls common in the early part of the nineteenth century, and now almost entirely superseded by “wax dolls.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Flag of Distress
Flagellants
Flam
Flamberge or Floberge
Flamboyant Architecture
Flame
Flaming
Flaming Swords
Flaminian Way
Flanders (Moll)
Flanders Babies
Flanders Mare (The)
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Flap-dragons
Flare-up
Flare-up (A)
Flash
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