brussels : Idioms & Phrases

• noun slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
  rusk; zwieback; twice-baked bread.
  

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• noun a carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern
  

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• 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.

Webster 1913

• noun breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle
  Belgian griffon; griffon.
  

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

Webster 1913

• noun fine lace with a raised or applique design
  

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• an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.

Webster 1913

• an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery.

Webster 1913

• . See Point lace.

Webster 1913

• noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
  Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout.
  

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• noun the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
  
• noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
  Brassica oleracea gemmifera; brussels sprout.
  

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• (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.

Webster 1913

• a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.

Webster 1913