bouvier des Flandres

noun

A breed of very large black dog with terrier-like appearance.

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Bouviers des Flandres
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Meanings

nounbouvier des Flandres (plural bouviers des Flandres)

plural bouviers des Flandres

  1. A breed of very large black dog with terrier-like appearance.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounrough-coated breed used originally in Belgium for herding and guarding cattle

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Bouviers des Flandres
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shepherd dogsheepdogsheep dog
Also see
bouvier

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchbouvier des Flandres“cattle-dog of Flanders”
  2. Englishbouvier des Flandres

Borrowed from French bouvier des Flandres (“cattle-dog of Flanders”).

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Translations

Finnish bouvier
  • bouvierbreed of dog
Russian фла́ндрский бувье́
  • фла́ндрский бувье́ (flándrskij buvʹjé)breed of dog
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“bouvier des Flandres.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouvier%20des%20Flandres. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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