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LIERRE (Flemish, Lier)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIERRE (Flemish, Lier)

LIERRE (Flemish, Lier) , a See also:

TOWN

town in the See also:

province of See also:

Antwerp, See also:

Belgium; 9 M. S.E. of Antwerp. Pop. (1904) 24,229. It carries on a brisk See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry in See also:

SILK

silk fabrics. Its See also:

church of St Gommaire was finished in 1557 and contains three See also:

FINE

fine See also:

glass windows, the See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of the See also:

ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

Maximilian, to celebrate his See also:

WEDDING

wedding with See also:

Mary of See also:

BURGUNDY

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