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Bruxelles
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English
Etymology
en :bor fr:Bruxelles + 1
Proper noun
en Brussels.
en 1694 Abel Boyer Brussels The Martial-Field of Europe: Being a Geographical and Historical Description of Those Parts of Europe, Which Are Most Famous in This Present War,I. Flanders, II. The Rhine, III. Savoy, IV. Catalonia, V. Hungary, VI. Greece. With an Account of the Several Revolutions of Those Places, either by Conquest or Treaties of Peace, Particularly from the Treaty of Munster in 1648. to This Present Time. London Printed for Thomas Salusbury,at the King’s-Arms near St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet. section I, chapter II (Of the Catholick-Provinces or Flanders in General), article II (Of the Dukedoms of Brabant Lat. Brabantia), “Places in Brabant Belonging to the Spaniards” 30–31 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-martial-field-of-eur_boyer-abel_1694/page/30/mode/1up 863537675 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.
en 25 June 1816 Mark Beaufoy Captain Mark Beaufoy Gwendolyn Beaufoy Leaves from a Beech Tree Oxford, Oxfordshire Printed [F]or the Author by Basil Blackwell 1930 229 https://archive.org/details/leavesfrombeecht00beau/page/229/mode/1up 18957220 Charles and Hawley I left at Paris; but they purpose visiting Bruxelles on their return homewards and I shall therefore probably see them again.
en 1963 Modern Tramway and Rapid Transit Review 26 London I. Allan 370 https://books.google.com/books?id=VaQx9oZy7MIC&q=%22citizens+of+Bruxelles%22 1 0026-850X 26641384 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.
en 2005 Ottagono 185–186 Milan Co. P.IN.A.s.r.l. 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=rUpWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22heart+of+Bruxelles%22 3 0391-7487 4088181 restored historic residence facing onto the Boulevard de Waterloo, in the heart of Bruxelles. The restoration of the interior was done in respect of the typical characteristics of the traditional upper class home in Bruxelles: full-height windows facing onto an interior courtyard; huge wooden doors to divide the interior spaces; the walls in red brick have been re-exposed.
en 2004 Henri Parens Getting into What Happened Renewal of Life: Healing from the Holocaust Rockville, Md. Schreiber Publishing chapter 1 (Incominciamo) 15 https://archive.org/details/renewaloflifehea0000pare/page/15/mode/1up 1-887563-89-X “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.
en 18 July 2012 Tracy Saunders ‘It’s All in the Past, Now’: Part 2 The Indalo Quest: A Book about Openings and Closure Bloomington, Ind. w:iUniverse 112 https://books.google.com/books?id=7bpfSzlT1_YC&pg=PA112 978-1-4759-2614-9 No-one in French Bruxelles is very much interested in Flemish history.
Danish
da:
Etymology
Borrowed from da fr Bruxelles.
Pronunciation
da [b̥ʁyˈsɛl]
Proper noun
da capital city c/Belgium Brussels
French
fr:
Alternative forms
fr Brusselle Brusselles both obsolete
Etymology
fr gmw-pro
Of fr gem origin, composed from gmw-pro *brōk marsh *sali building, room 1.
Pronunciation
[x:ç]
fr Fr-Bruxelles.ogg Belgium,standard,_,French /bʁy.sɛl/
Outside of Belgium nonstandard
fr Fr-Bruxelles.oga France,nonstandard /bʁyk.sɛl/
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-Bruxelles.wav <<Canada>> (<<Shawinigan>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Bruxelles.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Bruxelles.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Bruxelles.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-Bruxelles.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
Proper noun
f
fr capital city c/Belgium Brussels
fr Il reste quelques jours de plus à Bruxelles. He's staying in Brussels for a few more days.
Derived terms
fr bruxellisation bruxellois Bruxellois chou de Bruxelles
See also
nl Brussel in Dutch
Italian
it:
Etymology
it fr Bruxelles.
Pronunciation
Bruxèl,Brussèl,!Brüssèl<r:DiPI>
it LL-Q652 (ita)-DanielParoliere-Bruxelles.wav
Proper noun
f
it capital city c/Belgium Brussels
it Brusselles Brusselle Brussella Borsella
See also
it brussellese
References
Romanian
ro:
thumb|Bruxelles
Pronunciation
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Bruxelles.wav
Proper noun
ro proper noun
ro capital city c/Belgium Brussels
Related terms
ro bruxellez
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
sh proper noun
sh chiefly Croatian sh Brisel Brìsel