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Brussels \Brussels\ prop. n. (Geography)
The capital city of Belgium. Population (2000) = 949,070
(metro). It has given its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of
lace, etc.
[PJC]

{Brussels carpet}, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn
fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The
worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn
up in loops to form the pattern.

{Brussels ground}, a name given to the handmade ground of
real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the
extreme fineness of the threads.

{Brussels lace}, an expensive kind of lace of several
varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels
point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.

{Brussels net}, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by
machinery.

{Brussels point}. See {Point lace}.

{Brussels sprouts} (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family,
which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous
small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in
miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the
thousand-headed cabbage.

{Brussels wire ground}, a ground for lace, made of silk, with
meshes partly straight and partly arched.
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