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April 6, 2020

To 'Decorate' Someone

Young men used to decorate speculaas figurines and give them to their sweetheart. If she accepted the speculaas, it meant that she loved him back. That’s where the Dutch expression for flirting, iemand versieren’ (literally ‘to decorate someone’), comes from.

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