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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brussels \Brus"sels\, noun A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.
{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{Brussels lace}, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Brussels
noun: the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [syn: {Bruxelles}, {Belgian capital}, {capital of Belgium}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Brussels, IL (village, FIPS 9148) Location: 38.95100 N, 90.58883 W Population (1990): 125 (65 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Brussels, WI Zip code(s): 54204
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Brussels, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois Population (2000): 141 Housing Units (2000): 70 Land area (2000): 0.606699 sq. miles (1.571344 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.606699 sq. miles (1.571344 sq. km) FIPS code: 09148 Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17 Location: 38.947275 N, 90.588630 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Brussels, IL Brussels
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