bruxelles
/bɹəksˈɛləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.48 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Charles and Hawley I left at Paris; but they purpose visiting Bruxelles on their return homewards and I shall therefore probably see them again."
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
- "“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."
- "No-one in French Bruxelles is very much interested in Flemish history."
Etymology
Borrowed from French Bruxelles.