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FLANDERS FROST, n.comb. A frost accompanied by a south-east gale.Fif. 1985 Peter Smith Lammas Drave 76:
By the middle of January, a Flanders frost (a south-easterly gale with frost)...Fif. 1985 Christopher Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day 46:
One year there was a Flanders frost in February.
That was the name the old folk gave to a south-east gale that carried a frost as hard as armour — and many of the smaller craft hadn't put to sea for over a week.