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Webster 1913 Edition
Brusqueness
Brusque′ness
,Noun.
Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
Brit. Quar.
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, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels;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 groundBrussels 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.