flying dutchman in English

noun
1
a legendary spectral ship supposedly seen in the region of the Cape of Good Hope and presaging disaster.

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1. He controls the Flying Dutchman.

2. The Cape of Good Hope is the legendary home of The Flying Dutchman.

3. Between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton recorded a sighting of the Flying Dutchman, a mythical ghost ship.

4. The Black Pearl flees, outrunning the Flying Dutchman, but Davy Jones again summons the Kraken.

5. Due to his fear of flying, Bergkamp has been affectionately nicknamed the "Non-Flying Dutchman" by Arsenal supporters.

6. The legend of The Flying Dutchman started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope .

7. Apparition: 1 n a ghostly appearing figure “we were unprepared for the Apparition that confronted us” Synonyms: fantasm , phantasm , phantasma , phantom , specter , spectre Types: Flying Dutchman the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day Type of: disembodied spirit ,

8. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary cursed ship that was doomed to travel around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa for all eternity .

9. On 11 July 1881 , the Royal Navy ship , the Bacchante , was rounding the tip of Africa when they were confronted with the sight of The Flying Dutchman .

10. Alberich's hammer - Gabriel Fauré hears its sonorous echoes rise from the smithy at Moulinéry when his parents settle down in the premises of the Ecole Normale of Montgauzy, which according to one of its Heads, looks like the ‘Flying Dutchman’ from a misty distance; the 4-year-old child will bring back to the composer's memory the symphony of bells ringing out in Ganac and Cadirac at the time of the angelus, which marks the beginning of the Andante of the 2nd quartet.