"Flanches" is a word in ENGLISH
of Flanch
But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.
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A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several yearsbefore the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walkedabout 10 feet behind their husbands.She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walkedseveral yards behind their wives.She approached one of the women for an explanation. "This ismarvelous," said the journalist. "What enabled women here to achievethis reversal of roles?"Replied the Kuwaiti woman: "Land mines"
A flange.
Read the complete definitionA bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
Read the complete definitionHaving flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
Read the complete definitionOne of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
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