1736 Canting Dictionary / F / FLANDERS-Pieces [thing]
Pictures that look fair at a Distance, but coarser near at Hand.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).