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Definition of Brussels point

Brussels point
Brussels Brus"sels, n. 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 Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.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.

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- Brussels lace is not to be confused with Brussels point (or Point de Gaze), which is a type of needle lace, though sometimes also called "Brussels lace"...
- Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 muni****lities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital...
- Brussels attack may refer to: The 1979 Brussels bombing The 2016 Brussels bombings The 2016 Brussels stabbing attacks The 2017 Brussels-Central bombing...
- Bruxellensis, an ****ociation close to the City of Brussels. Its starting point is in the Sablon/Zavel district in Brussels' historic centre and it ends with a large...
- University of Brussels may refer to several institutions in Brussels, Belgium: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking university established...
- Look up Brussels in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium. Brussels may also refer...
- is completed with the needle pointing upwards and the working hand moving away from the lacemaker. Alençon Lace Brussels lace Flanders lace List of fabric...
- of stitching, including some needle lace techniques. For example, Hollie Point structure and steps can be examined in detail. Bath, Virginia Churchill...
- mid-nineteenth century Ireland as a method of imitating expensive Venetian point laces. By 1845 it was being taught in the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, County...
- Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne is an annual single-day road cycling race in Belgium. It is held one day after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, on the last Sunday of February...