Armentières, a French town in Nord, 12 miles WNW. of Lille, with manufactures of cotton, linen, lace, leather, beetroot-sugar, salt, and soap, and trade in grain. Pop. (1881) 23,639; (1891) 27,515.
Armentières
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 426
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