brussels

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Brus=sels

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun brussels has 1 sense

brussels(n = noun.location) belgian capital, bruxelles, capital of belgium - the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization;

is a kind of national capital

is a part of belgique, belgium, kingdom of belgium

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CIDE DICTIONARY

brussels, n.

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. [1913 Webster]

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 -- Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.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