From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Brussels
n 1: the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization [syn: {Bruxelles}, {Brussels},
{Belgian capital}, {capital of Belgium}]
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
Brussels /brɵsəls/
Brussels
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