Bruxelles
Bruxelles proper noun: synonym of Brussels.
Proper noun
Bruxelles
- Synonym of Brussels.
- Bruſſels or Bruxelles, Lat. Bruxellæ, one of the greateſt, beautifulleſt, and beſt peopled City of the Spaniſh Netherlands, is the Capital of the Dutchy of Brabant; […] Bruxelles is a Trading Town, and has ſeveral Manufactures.1694, A[bel] Boyer, “Brussels”, in The Martial-Field of Europe: Being a Geographical and Historical Description of Those Parts of Europe, Which Are Most Famous in This Present War, […], London: […]...
- Charles and Hawley I left at Paris; but they purpose visiting Bruxelles on their return homewards and I shall therefore probably see them again.1816 June 25, Mark Beaufoy, “Captain Mark Beaufoy”, in Gwendolyn Beaufoy, Leaves from a Beech Tree, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [F]or the Author by Basil Blackwell, published 1930, →OCLC, page 229
- Synonyms:
- Brussels
Examples of Bruxelles in a sentence
- This new car demonstrates once again the unceasing efforts of the STIB to provide the citizens of Bruxelles with the most modern rolling stock within their financial resources.1963, Modern Tramway and Rapid Transit Review, volume 26, London: I. Allan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370, column 1:
- […] restored historic residence facing onto the Boulevard de Waterloo, in the heart of Bruxelles.2005, Ottagono, numbers 185–186, Milan: Co. P.IN.A.s.r.l., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60, column 3:
- “My life that would have been” is the life of which the Nazis robbed me, the one I started to live, as my memory permits, in Bruxelles, Belgium, the life I lived until I was 11 years old.2004, Henri Parens, “Getting into What Happened”, in Renewal of Life: Healing from the Holocaust, Rockville, Md.: Schreiber Publishing...
- No-one in French Bruxelles is very much interested in Flemish history.2012 July 18, Tracy Saunders, “‘It’s All in the Past, Now’: Part 2”, in The Indalo Quest: A Book about Openings and Closure, Bloomington...
Synonyms of Bruxelles
Origin of Bruxelles
Borrowed from French Bruxelles.
Questions about Bruxelles
- What does Bruxelles mean?
- Bruxelles means synonym of Brussels.
- How do you use Bruxelles in a sentence?
- This new car demonstrates once again the unceasing efforts of the STIB to provide the citizens of Bruxelles with the most modern rolling stock within their financial resources.
- What part of speech is Bruxelles?
- Bruxelles is a proper noun.
Words near Bruxelles in the dictionary
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